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A pile of bones, six teeth, some clumps of hair and a pair of rotting trousers. Such are the meager contents of the grave at Embu. Somewhere in this grisly heap, forensic scientists last week sought to find a series of identifying fragments of the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. The...
Though forensic medicine has become highly refined in recent years, the trained eye is still among the most reliable tools. Sex, for instance, can be identified by the shape of the intact pelvis: generally, a woman's has a wider opening to permit childbirth. Height can be calculated, within an...
Age is a more difficult problem. Because bone growth in humans occurs according to a more or less predictable timetable, forensic experts can usually tell the age of a skeleton of a child or young adult. But most of the skeletal changes are complete by about age 45, when the...
As the crowd surrounded a weed-covered tomb that had been marked until hours before with the name of Wolfgang Gerhard, who died in 1979, two gravediggers began loosening the solid red clay with pickaxes and then started shoveling. Almost an hour later, their tools struck against the light- colored...
Until then, there is certain to be widespread skepticism over the discovery. The sudden uncovering of the bones struck many as either wishful thinking or ingenious misinformation by Mengele's Nazi sympathizers. Especially suspicious were those who had been on the Mengele trail for 40 years. "It's 99% certain...