
Surface Skeleton and Buried Body Recovery Seminar
Instructed by Dr. Laura C. Fulginiti & Det. Frank Di Modica – Ret.Surface Skeleton and Buried Body Recovery Seminar
February 3 – 5, 2027
8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Hosted by the Peoria Police Department
Peoria, Arizona (metro Phoenix)
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






























