Forensic Anthropology

cold-cases

Asian Doe on Long Island refers to an unidentified person whose remains were found in Suffolk County, New York, in the early 2000s. This overview explains what has been verified...

true crime

The term skin serial killer refers to a category of serial offender characterized by extensive mutilation, removal, or preservation of human skin. Unlike opportunistic offenders...

forensic-investigation

When authorities announced the exhumation of remains identified as Gloria Satterfield, it immediately raised fundamental questions about why a decades-old burial would be reopen...

category-investigations

When reports emerge about girls murdered in the past and found in wooded areas, they raise profound questions about how such tragedies are identified, investigated, and remember...

case_profiles

JonBenét Ramsey was born on August 6, 1990, and died on December 26, 1998. If she were alive now in 2025, she would be 35 years old. This evergreen profile explains how she wou...

Celebrity Profiles

Lucy, the famous early hominin specimen of the species Australopithecus afarensis , died from injuries consistent with a rapid fall from a height, likely from a tree. The skelet...

crime_and_investigations

Ed Gein, active in rural Wisconsin during the late 1950s, is primarily known for grave robbery and the creation of objects and clothing from human remains rather than for solvin...