Solving crimes with forensic anthropology – with Sue Black
Ri Science Podcast
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I've Never Heard This Kind of Evidence Befor, or This Is Witchcraft
The judge decided that because the evidence was based on anatomical knowledge, and frankly, since vesalius in the 15 hundreds, we anatomists have understood variation. The jury came back and they found dad not guilty. But who else had an identical vein pattern to ther father? And your instant reaction say, what did i do wrong? Where did the si go wrong here? I asked our barrister. She said, you did nothing wrong. Your evidence was absolutely perfectly understandable. They just didn't believe the girl. If you like me and your hands are a bit fat, look at the inside of your wrists, and the pattern of veins on your right will be different to your
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