While the Basilica di San Nicola in Bari, Italy is widely accepted to be home to the relics of Saint Nicholas, there are two other cities that allege to possess his grave: Venice, Italy and Newtown Jerpoint, Ireland. This osteological controversy started when the… Read More ›
I used to associate decomposing human remains strapped to metal racks with medieval European torture devices. I guess I underestimated the creative and innovative ways in which modern murderers torture and/or dispose of their victim’s bodies. That changed when I read an extract from… Read More ›
Forensic analyses of two Egyptian mummies published in the British Medical Journal in 2012 may have answered questions scholars had about the outcome of an ancient conspiracy against Pharaoh Ramesses III and the identity of a contorted mummy believed to… Read More ›
Outside of St. Thomas’s Church in Leipzig, Germany stands an eight-foot tall bronze statue of Johann Sebastian Bach, the legendary 17th century composer, which was built to honor the man who is entombed inside. The monument is the result of… Read More ›
Jane McCrea was a Loyalist who was killed and scalped during the American Revolution on the way to meet her fiancé in a British camp. According to the most widely accepted account of her death, Jane was murdered by Wyandot… Read More ›
Harvard Medical School was founded by Dr. John Warren on September 19, 1782 making it the third oldest medical school in the U.S. The alumni and faculty at this respected institution have made advances in the field of forensic science… Read More ›
When a woman is murdered in the prime of her life and her body is left unidentified the story tends to capture the attention of the public because the mystery of her death is compounded by the apparent lack… Read More ›
Every fledgling forensic anthropologist in the U.S. learns about the murder trial of John Webster because of its significance to the history of forensic science. But the trial transcripts are just as fascinating as the facts of the case because they reveal… Read More ›
In October of 2000 Pakistani authorities heard that a Karachi resident was trying to sell a mummy on the black market for $11 million. When the police interrogated the seller he told them he got the mummy from an Iranian… Read More ›
The Fisk Mummy Almond D. Fisk was granted the first patent for a cast iron coffin, called the “Fisk Airtight Coffin of Cast or Raised Metal,” in 1848. Known as the “Fisk Mummy,” this metal coffin was a little eerie… Read More ›
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