Expert Consultation – Legal

  • Certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology
  • Qualified as an expert in Superior (District) and Federal courts
  • Case review
    • Radiographs
    • Photographs
    • Reports/Diagrams
    • Procedures
  • Consulting or testifying expert
  • Cremains analysis
    • Commingling
    • Admixture – nonhuman
    • Biological profile
  • Scene recoveries
    • Best practices
    • Photograph review
    • Report review

Analyses – Medical Examiner/Coroner

  • Non-human, non-forensic (non-jurisdictional) assessments
    • Photographs
    • Remote review – save time and resources
  • Identification processes (remote or in person)
    • Radiograph review for medical history confirmation (stent, hernia repair etc)
    • Biological Profile
      • Age-at-death
      • Biological Sex as assigned at birth
      • Ancestry/Population affinity
      • Estimated living stature (height)
      • Individualizing features e.g. healed fractures for ID

Skeletal Trauma Assessment

  • Blunt force – patterned, number of impacts, characteristics
    • Sharp force – perimortem trauma, postmortem dismemberment
    • Gunshot wounds, interpretation and possible trajectory
    • Reconstruction of fragmentary remains
    • Pedestrian trauma – direction of force
    • Radiograph review (pediatrics and adults)
    • Case review

Scene Response

    • Search and recovery
    • Scattered human remains
    • Buried remains
    • Burned remains
    • Fragmentary remains
    • Landfill excavation
    • Multiple (commingled) fatalities e.g. aircraft accidents, motor vehicle accidents
    In-depth analysis
    Hands on experience