The Casanova Killer:
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Paul John Knowles (April 17, 1946 – December 18, 1974, death by a gunshot wound). Knowles was an American serial killer tied to the deaths of 20 people in 1974. Knowles claimed to have taken 35 lives. The Casanova Killer’s (other names: Lester Daryl Gates. Daryl Golden) crimes span from July 26, 1974, to November 16, 1974. Click For Image: HERE Knowles was always in the eye of the law and was incarcerated at the age of 19. Knowles spent some time in prison, later he was arrested again after stabbing a bartender during a fight. Knowles being handy with locks picked a lock in his detention cel ..read more
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Image source: G. Garitan. Trepanned Crane found in Congy in the...
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Image source: G. Garitan. Trepanned Crane found in Congy in the 19th century. Wikimedia Commons.  Drilling holes into the skull of a person is still practiced today, it is just called craniotomy. The procedure has a surgeon remove a piece of the cranium to access the brain. This is done in order to treat conditions like brain lesions, and brain tumors. After, the piece of the cranium is replaced as soon as possible. Some people have practiced trepanation (also known as trephination, trephining or making a burr hole) on themselves, on few rare occasions the procedure is done to “become enlig ..read more
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Reviewing material for the start of the academic year.
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Free Online Forensics Courses - FutureLearn
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Free Online Forensics Courses - FutureLearn: Not sure what to do this summer? Check out these courses! I’ve done a few, and at the end, you can purchase a certificate ..read more
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The Hart Island Project.
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The Hart Island Project.: The Hart Island Project began in 1980. There are 68,113 people have been buried in mass graves on Hart Island, right off the shore of The Bronx. The Traveling Cloud Museum is a collection of their stories.Through this interactive map we invite you to explore the island with all its stories. By clicking on a plot number you can access records of individuals buried at that location. Each person has a clock measuring how long they have been buried on the island. You can stop their clock of anonymity and restore their history by adding a story to The Traveling Cloud Museu ..read more
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Image Source: Stitching of archives of Service Regional...
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Image Source: Stitching of archives of Service Regional d'Identité Judiciaire, Préfecture de Police, Paris.Alphonse Bertillon (1853 - 1914) was a pioneer in forensics and the inventor of anthropometry. Bertillon was the first head of the Forensic Identification Service of the Prefecture de Police in Paris (1893). Above you can see an image of an Anthropometric data sheet. Bertillon is also the inventor of the mug shot. A mug shot is a photograph of a criminal, which can be used as identification, etc. Photography began in the 1840s, and it was not until 1888 that Bertillon standardized the p ..read more
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Forensic Facial Reconstruction
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I am setting up an internship to learn hands-on the technique of forensic facial reconstruction. The person teaching me works with the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) here, in NYC.The technique (anatomical method) is said to be more accurate than the tissue depth markers (alone), and computer. The anatomical or morphoscopic method for facial reconstruction involves rebuilding the face, muscle by muscle, tissue by tissue. This method is attributed to a Russian anthropologist, Mikhail M. Gerasimov (1907 - 1970), and it was the first technique developed in forensic sculpture. Gerasimov ..read more
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Body size, scaling body size, and how shape changes.Helps in a forensic context for the biological...
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Body size, scaling body size, and how shape changes.Helps in a forensic context for the biological profile. Population, and environmental stressors like mobility, and disease affect body size/shape. Can also be used to understand the sexual dimorphism of extinct hominins. Ecogeographical rules related to thermoregulation: Bergmann’s Rule (1847) If you have a species that is variable, and spread out over a geographical area you will see a larger variance of those species. Relating to body mass; bigger in colder climates, smaller in warmer climates. Allen’s Rule (1877) concerned with appendag ..read more
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