In the movie The Bone Collector, a forensic science movie, it is often portrayed as a movie that can be easily solved within a few hours based off shows that deals with forensic work like NCIS, Law and Order, Cold Case, and Snapped; but the solving time is often misunderstood. The Bone Collector is specifically based on forensic anthropology, which is the application of science to the physical by applying skeletal analysis and techniques in archaeology to solving criminal cases. Forensic anthropologists examine bones and bodies to figure out the age, sex, height, etc. of the deceased person like was done in the bone collector. There are numerous other forensic methods used throughout the movie, but most processes used to find the conclusions
