Bone voyage: a journey in forensic anthropology

558 Pages·1998·3.23 MB·English

by  Stanley Rhine

Bone Voyage : A Journey in Forensic
title:
Anthropology
author: Rhine, Stanley.
publisher: University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin: 082631967X
print isbn13: 9780826319678
ebook isbn13: 9780585188522
language: English
subject Forensic anthropology.
publication date: 1998
lcc: GN69.8.R45 1998eb
ddc: 599.9
subject: Forensic anthropology.
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Bone Voyage
A Journey in Forensic Anthropology
Stanley Rhine
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque
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©1998 by the University of New Mexico Press
All rights reserved.
First edition
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rhine, Stanley.
Bone voyage a journey in forensic anthropology Stanley Rhine.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Forensic anthropology. I. Title.
0-8263-1967-x (cloth)
ISBN
0-8263-1968-8 (paper)
ISBN
GN69.8.R45 1998
614'.1dc21 98-23459
CIP
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Contents
Illustrations vii
Preface ix
Introduction xv
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Morgue
1 1
A Premature Funeral:
Bones and Fire
2 21
Picking up the Pieces:
Search, Discovery, and Recovery of Bodies
3 53
The Skeleton in the Closet:
The Flow of Information to and from the Forensic
Anthropologist
4 77
Listening to the Bones:
Determination of Age, Sex, Stature, Race, and Other
Things
5 109
The End of the World:
Decomposed Bodies, Autopsies, and Case Reports
6 131
Forensic Anthropology:
A Short History
7 155
To Mexico . . . the Long Way:
The Intricacies of Identification
8 181
Medicolegal Investigation:
The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator
9 203
Nefarious Application of Force to the Skeleton:
Sharp and Blunt Force Skeletal Trauma
10 225
A Plethora of Bodies:
Forensic Anthropology in Mass Disasters
Afterword 245
Glossary 249
References 257
Index 265
Page vii
Illustrations
Map
New Mexico xx
Figures
1.1 5
Skull of a truck driver burned in a crash
1.2 6
Remains of woman shot
1.3 8
Fragment of long bone burned in a body
1.4 9
Bones of a man killed in a structure fire
1.5 18
Human and nonhuman skulls
2.1 28
Remains of Lt. Rock
2.2 29
Sketches of skull gunshot wounds
2.3 35
Scene of predator dismemberment, Pedernal Hills, NM
2.4 36
Bleached lower leg bone from Pedernal Hills, NM
2.5 40
Trenching an alleged burial site, Albuquerque, NM
2.6 41
Skeletonized remains uncovered by trenching
3.1 54
Remains found wrapped and covered with mothballs
3.2 57
Right side of the skull of body found in mothballs
3.3 58
Back of the skull of body found in mothballs
3.4 60
A complete documented human skeleton
3.5 70
The buried body of Mr. Zilla
3.6 71
Close-up of Mr. Zilla's head
4.1 81
Differences between males and females, pelvis
4.2 82
Differences between males and females, skull
4.3 84
Bones of a full-term human fetus
4.4 85
Approximate times of epiphyseal union
4.5 87
Skull of an edentulous sixty-year-old man
4.6 88
Suchey-Brooks pubic bone casts, changes in symphyseal
faces
4.7 9697
Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and American Black skulls
4.8 101
Ribs showing antemortem and perimortem fractures
4.9 102
Skull showing blunt force fractures
4.10 106
Susan Jimenez recovering a decomposed "shallow
burial"
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4.11 107
Multiple defects to a skull, probably from a shovel
6.1 146
Mass grave in Bosnia
6.2 151
A break from the Alferd Packer cannibalism case
7.1 159
The odyssey of the Tison gang
7.2 161
Entrance wound on the base of Mrs. Courmey's skull
7.3 162
Exit wound on Mrs. Courtney's forehead
7.4 163
Mr. Courtney's skull
7.5 164
Base of Mr. Courtney's skull
7.6 167
Femora of 21-year-old, showing healed childhood fracture
7.7 173
Skull in preparation for facial reproduction
7.8 174
Demonstration skull with facial reproduction
8.1 185
James T. Weston, M.D.
8.2 197
Autopsy suite at the OMI
9.1 205
The adobe body of Mark Miracle
9.2 211
Bones of Mark Miracle
9.3 213
View of sternum showing a stab wound
9.4 214
Thoracic and cervical vertebrae, three right ribs
10.1 231
Gymnasium at the New Mexico State Penitentiary
10.2 232
Burned body from penitentiary riot
10.3 233
Skull of victim shot with a tear gas gun
10.4 234
Sorting and reconstructing bone fragments from a burned
body