Present Day Forensics

There has been a huge change between the history of forensics and forensics in the present day, and if forensics has come this far imagine how forensics in the future will be. About 151,600 people die every day in the United States that is a lot of dead people. If there are those many people dying every day that means a lot of families are losing a husband, wife, child, grandparent, cousin, and more. Forensics job is to identify the bodies and how they died, though for a lot of deaths there is a witness who has seen what happened. Discovering who and what happened is sad for the families, but at the same time can give them ease. There are bodies that are found, that were hid, that are decayed, which can sometimes be harder or just take …show more content…
“In murder cases, lawyers turn to forensics evidence to make connections between the crime and the accused person. Forensic scientists uncover and use many different clues to solve their puzzles. At the scene of a death, they analyze the position of the body” (Mattern 7). These scientists look for any clues from obvious the ones, to the littlest ones such as an empty bottle of medicine which they might have overdosed or moved furniture. They can also study the positioning of the body to see if it was placed there (Mattern …show more content…
Another thing is eye color, which is not the most helpful but in some cases can help. The same goes with hair, the length or color can help. Tattoos and piercings are also helpful, because there are so many unique tattoos and piercings a person have making is easier to identify the person (Murray 24-25). “Forensic anthropologists are experts on bone biology and skeletal differences among people. They use clues in bones to estimate a person’s age, sex, height, ancestry, and other features related to personal identification” (Murray 38). Teeth also remain long in the body like bones, making it easy to search dental records. The person that studies the teeth is an odontologist; they include markers of lifestyle, age, health, and maybe ancestry (Murray 38). One thing that has unsolved countless crimes and identifications is finger print comparisons. The one downer about this is that for it to show positive fingerprints, there has to be samples of them somewhere. Though people who have been arrested, book tellers, military personnel, teachers, and more have their finger prints routinely on file. Taking these fingerprints are for safety reasons such as bank security and child safety, but it also helps a lot with indentifying criminals and dead bodies (Murray