主要研究 今天

艾米迈克尔, assistant professor of anthropology and director of 主要研究’s Forensic Anthropology Identification and Recovery Lab, and true crime podcaster Laurah Norton (“The Fall Line”) have been joining forces to work on cold cases since 2018. 他们的最新合作是诺顿的第一本书。”Lay Them to Rest: On the Road 与 the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless”(Hachette).

在这, 诺顿深入研究了法医科学, 把她的叙述集中在解决伊娜·简·多伊的身份上, 1993年，一名女子的头颅在伊利诺斯州的一个乡村公园被发现, 与 迈克尔 以及澳门葡京网赌游戏22岁的凯安娜·伯吉斯和21岁的奥黛丽·沃特曼. The team’s investigation updated the original forensic sketch in collaboration 与 a forensic artist and used updated forensic methods that ultimately identified Susan Lund, 她来自田纳西州，25岁，是三个孩子的母亲. 她被谋杀的具体情况仍未查明.

迈克尔谈到了她在《澳门葡京网赌游戏》中的合作,” Ina Jane Doe/Susan Lund and assisting law enforcement identify John and Jane Does in New Hampshire and the nation.

斯帕克:什么是法医人类学?
艾米迈克尔法医人类学是骨骼生物学的应用, 我们所知道的澳门葡京网赌游戏人类骨骼的一切, 医疗法律程序. A forensic anthropologist’s duty and obligation is to help identify unidentified people. 使用过去50到70年发展起来的方法, 我们可以估计死亡年龄, 我们可以估计性别, 我们可以估计我们现在所说的群体亲和力, 也就是我们通俗所说的种族. 我们可以估计高度. Certain diseases and lifestyle factors may even manifest in the skeleton, 帮助我们判断病人是否患有贫血, 糖尿病, 关节炎和其他疾病.

跟我们说说你和劳拉·诺顿的合作吧.
我很早就知道，当我遇到劳拉时，我想和她一起工作, 我觉得我们的技能是互补的. 劳拉不像我是法医骨学家, and I am not a professional researcher in the way that is really needed in cold case work. 她对档案和数据库的工作原理有着深刻的理解. And we are both interested in rural cases that are in resource-poor jurisdictions.

你是怎么找到伊娜·简·多伊的?
我来自伊利诺斯州中部，一个乡村小镇. 我的家人仍然住在那里. I was 11 years old in 1993 when Ina Jane Doe was found and the circumstances of recovery always just kind of stuck 与 me.

我打电话给学校B区负责这个案子的警探. I dug out my central Illinois accent, and luckily I still have a Peoria, Illinois area code. Like a lot of law enforcement, he had not really had any contact 与 an anthropologist before. I explained to him that Laurah and I can bring these other dimensions, 比如骨骼再分析, 比如深入的档案研究, 这可以与执法部门的调查并行.

你描述了"全国范围内身份不明的尸体泛滥,这个数字可能已经过时了，只有40,在美国，有1万名失踪或身份不明的人.S. 他们是谁，为什么你致力于识别他们?
I’m an anthropologist in part because people are complex and frustrating and fascinating. 在法医案件中, 我们看到了很多相互交织的因素，比如贫困, 住房紧张, unstable employment and lack of access to resources that often compound to make people vulnerable to violence.

A sad reality is that there are a lot of folks who go through their lives 与out any permanent or meaningful family or friendship ties. It’s unfortunate that sometimes Does are most cared about after death, by strangers like myself and Laurah and people online who want to know who they are and what their story was.

法医学是伟大的，它取得了突飞猛进的发展, but we still need the public to care about cold cases and unidentified people.