Surface Skeleton and Buried Body Recovery Seminar

Surface Skeleton and Buried Body Recovery Seminar
March 26 - March 28, 2025
8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Hosted by the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office and
Prescott Valley Police Department

Registration is $500 per student ($20.80/hr CE) Course is approved for 24 hours of continuing education by AZPOST and ABMDI

The Surface Skeleton and Buried Body Recovery Seminar is a 3 day, hands-on, course designed to orient detectives, crime scene investigators and medico-legal death investigators to the proper techniques for processing surface skeleton and buried body scenes. The course includes the following topics in a combined classroom instruction and actual buried body recovery exercise:

• Forensic Anthropology in the Medico-Legal System
• Determination of Age-at-Death, Sex, Ancestry and Stature
• Assessment of Bony Trauma
• Positive Identification on Unknown Human Remains
• Period Since Death
• Crime Scene Investigation on Unknown Human Remains
• Techniques for the Proper Recovery of Scattered and Buried Human Remains
• Determination of Human vs. Non-human Remains
• Forensic Odontology
• Forensic Entomology
• The Use and Abuse of Cadaver Dogs (with demonstration)
• Forensic Art and Unknown Remains

Hands-on excavation of homicide scenario in small groups with briefing after.
This course is a lot of fun and consistently receives high marks from the students.
Please contact Detective Frank Di Modica – Ret. at az4n6training@yahoo.com
for more information or to inquire about becoming a host agency for the seminar.

Pay by credit card

Registration guaranteed only after payment is received. Registration fees will NOT be refunded after February 28, 2025.