Identifying the Victim

What does a Forensic Anthropologist do?

• Determine a victim's age

• Examine bones

• Determine a victim's height

• Examine individual characteristics of a victim

How was anthropologist, George Dorsey, able to identify Louisa Leutgert as the victim?

• Hair that was left in the vat

• Bone fragments linked to age of victim

• Tooth sample

• Testimony of the killer

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Which one of these is NOT how FAs determine the age of a victim?

• Growth of nails and hair

• Length of bones

• Odonatologist records

• Kerley Method - slicing and examining bone samples

What is ossification?

• The fusing of the bones to one another.

• Classifying bones into categories

• Breaking down of bones

• Patterns that bones grow as we age

Where is the most visible places where ossification in evident?

• Clavicle (Collar bone)

• Ankles and Wrists

• The soft spot on a baby's head

• The heart

Bones and teeth grow...

• in a predictable pattern

• differently according to environmental factors

• larger and then smaller

• according to a person's height

An odonatologist will know that a victim was an adult by...

• if a person's incisors have grown in

• if a person's teeth have fallen out

• if they no longer have wisdom teeth

• if a person's third molars have erupted

F.A.s look at characteristics in the _________ to identify a victim's race.

• teeth

• skull

• long bones

• accents

Check the three races that can be identified?

• Mongoloid

• Negroid

• Amazoid

• Caucasoid

What is the most common way F.A.s estimate height?

• Measure the foot and multiplying it by 10.

• Measuring the long bone and then using a mathematical formula.

• Guessing from the stature of the remains.

• Averaging the length of bones.