Disaster victim identification operations with fragmented, burnt, or commingled remains: experience-based recommendations

• Main Authors: Hans H. de Boer (Author), Julie Roberts (Author), Tania Delabarde (Author), Amy Z. Mundorff (Author), Soren Blau (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Oxford University Press, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Human-made and natural disasters can result in severely fragmented, compromised, and commingled human remains. The related disaster victim identification (DVI) operations are invariably challenging, with the state of the remains potentially precluding some identifications. Practitioners involved in...