A puzzle of skeletal remains: how forensic science and medicine succeeded in unravelling a complex and controversial murder case.
A case is presented where skeletal remains recovered from a remote, wooded area in Karnataka State of South India, which posed difficulties in identification were eventually successfully tackled by systematic forensic methods. Though most of these constituted well-established conventional techniques, the case can yet be considered as a fairly complex one beguiling some of the Scientific Investigators involved.
Kashyap
V K
VK
Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Hyderabad, AP, India.
Kulasekharan
A R
AR
Pillay
V V
VV
Patnaik
V P
VP
D000328:Adult; D000365:Age Determination by Skeleton; D003817:Dentition; D005260:Female; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D007194:India