A Premature Funeral

When a body is found burned beyond visual identification, there are certain steps a County Sheriff, or the officers called to the scene, must follow. If there is any bone fragments and no soft tissue it would be a very wise thing to call in a forensic anthropologist. Their specialty is the skeleton and from even very little pieces of bone, they are able to identify whether or not the skeleton is human or nonhuman. …

…with real experience with bones and a big drama could have been avoided. They automatically thought it was a murdered young girl and the media went crazy. As soon as an expert got a chance to look at the bones they concluded it was only a bear. It is very important for officials to get help when they are not experts in the field of forensics, because it only helps the case get solved quicker.