A Jane Doe Gets A Back Story by James Gorman. The New York Times. November 12, 2012.
Technologies from diverse fields are being applied to criminal cases with new hope for clues in cold cases. Among those technologies mentioned in this article are isotope analysis and 3D-ID for aiding in producing reconstructions of a face. In a case discussed in the article a geochemist was able to hypothesize that a body was that of a European due to a particular type of lead in the teeth. Also the presence of heavy oxygen isotopes he also was persuaded the crime victim probably grew up near the ocean.
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