On Tuesday October 7th a research team from the University of South Florida (USF) exhumed a grave in Philadelphia belonging to Thomas Curry, a boy who died under “suspicious circumstances” in 1925. This excavation was related to the continuing investigation… Read More ›
Forensic Science
USF Anthropology Team Identifies 2 More Sets of Human Remains From Infamous Reform School [Update]
The anthropology team from the University of South Florida (USF) has positively identified two more sets of remains exhumed from graves on the property once belonging to the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys: 13-year-old Thomas Varnadoe and 12-year-old Earl… Read More ›
The case of the sausage vat murder and the dissolved wife
“Unable to dissolve his marriage, he decided to dissolve his wife.” -Clyde Snow, The Stories Bones Tell On Diversey and Hermitage Avenue in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood is an industrial building that was converted to condominiums in the 1990’s. Though this… Read More ›
First set of human remains ID’d from Florida reform school [Update]
The first set of 55 remains unearthed from graves at the now closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys have been identified by the anthropology team at the University of South Florida (USF). The researchers used DNA and other tests to identify… Read More ›
A nightmare at Murder Farm: The story of one of America’s most prolific serial killers
Children in La Porte, Indiana grow up listening to graphic horror stories about the gruesome murder’s committed by Belle Gunness on her farm at the end of McClung Road. The most disturbing part about these grisly stories is that the… Read More ›
Bones of farce: The discredited relics of Joan of Arc
One of the thrills of being a forensic scientist is positively identifying human remains, which can be hundreds of years old and revered as relics. Other times forensic science can be used to debunk a hoax, and the really interesting… Read More ›
Soap on a bone
From 1786-1787 the graves in Paris’ Cemetery of Innocents (Cimetière des Saints-Innocents) were dug up to move the bones to the abandoned mines beneath the City of Lights, what would become the famous Paris Catacombs. Fourcroy and Thouret, French scientists… Read More ›
Forensic scientists compile guide on how to identify child abuse, starvation
From the North Carolina State University website: Forensic scientists from North Carolina State University published a paper in which the researchers “outline common diagnostic characteristics and patterns of non-accidental injuries and neglect as a result of nutritional deprivation” that can… Read More ›
The afterlife of American outlaw Clell Miller
Clell Miller (1850-1876) was an outlaw and member of the notorious James-Younger Gang, made famous by Jesse James and Cole Younger. On September 7, 1876 Clell Miller and fellow gang member Bill Chadwell (alias Bill Stiles) were shot and killed… Read More ›
USF forensic anthropology team unearths remains from 55 people at infamous reform school.
The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys was an infamous reform school that was opened in 1900 and shuttered in 2011, following a Department of Justice investigation. The “school” was notorious for abusing its students and was plagued with horrifying… Read More ›
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