bones

A dog finds a bone in the desert which turns out to belong to the skeleton of a 70 year old man who was chopped up by his wife. The csis studied the bones and found that he overdosed on a heart medicine and could tell that he was chopped up by an electric saw. The man supposedly committed suicide because of his heart troubles and made his wife promise to hide his body so she could receive his social security checks. Also a male dancer ends up dead after a bachelorette party. Can you really tell that much from just bones?

1 comment:

Zach said...

yeah, forensic anthropology is the application of the science of physical anthropology and human osteology (the study of the human skeleton) in a legal setting, most often in criminal cases where the victim's remains are more or less skeletonized.Forensic anthropology borrows methods developed from the academic discipline of physical anthropology and applies them to cases of forensic importance. These techniques can be used to assess age, sex, stature, ancestry, and analyze trauma and disease. Forensic anthropologists frequently work in conjunction with forensic pathologists, odontologists, and homicide investigators to identify a decedent, discover evidence of trauma, and determine the postmortem interval.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic_anthropology)