Using Forensic Techniques To Identify The Victim

In trying to identify the victim who was murdered, there are methods that are used to identify a victim, for example, if only the teeth and bones were left it are important to find out who the person was by using the methods of anthropology, ontology and DNA (Fisher, 2012 p.128) Anthropology is a way for scientist that work in forensics. It is a way to see what happened to a body including injuries or disease. In addition, will determine the sex and age of the deceased person by using various methods Before any of the anthropology would begin would be to photograph the body’s position and documenting any injuries that would be on the body’s bones found secondly the anthropologist needs to determine if the remains would be of a human or animal. In addition to the photograph and x-rays of the teeth and the missing teeth or decay that could indicate the age of the person. …show more content…
The orthodontist should have a dental record to be able to compare the teeth with the database. The skull would be another way to identify a skeletal remain as facial methods are used here they would use molding clay to reconstruct their face to able to mold as face to show that the person may have looked like (Arizona science center, 2011) In addition, computer graphics as this could determine the sex or race of the person as to whether it is female or male due to the size of the skull will give information about the soft tissues that were in the ears and the weight of the