Solving crimes with forensic anthropology – with Sue Black
Ri Science Podcast
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How to Catch a Petefile
The first time a pedefile had ever changed their plea to guilty on the basis of an anatomical report that involved their hands. So we were able to go back to dean lis hardy and say, there 're all these things that match, but we have no idea what that means in terms of statistics. And so he received an extra few years in prison as a result of it. By this point, we were absolutely convinced that science and anatomy had a part to play in the identification. All the features that you see in your hand can be classified according to different forms of etiology. We thought, let's start with limbs. That allowed us to look at both infra
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