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Teeth provide important clues. Their alignment, the shapes of the roots, the patterns of wear and dental work are different in each individual. "It may be one tooth that puts the whole story together," says Snow, a forensic anthropologist from Norman, Okla. The rest of the skeleton can also yield...
Forensic scientists ultimately come to a verdict much as a jury does, judging from the preponderance of carefully examined evidence. "We deal with the law of probabilities," says Dr. Marcos Segre of the University of Sao Paulo. "We are scientists and not magicians."
So it went virtually every day last week. As a team of Brazilian forensic experts examined the Embu bones at Sao Paulo's Instituto Medico Legal to determine whether they were Mengele's or not, Tuma -- and others -- provided bits and pieces of fresh evidence in what could be the...
Gerald Posner, an American lawyer who has assembled 25,000 pages of documents and interviewed 200 witnesses in South America during a four-year search for the doctor of death, explained that when he first heard of the find at Embu, he thought the story a hoax. After flying from...
As the forensic examination got under way last week, the medical investigators worked in strict secrecy. Outside the third-floor multiroom lab at the Instituto Medico Legal, armed military policemen stood guard around the clock. Within days, the original five-man team of examiners had grown to seven; early on...