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Kamloops Courthouse Burials: Identification of Three Historic Murderers From Kamloops, British Columbia

NCJ Number
118677
Journal
Canadian Society of Forensic Science Volume: 22 Issue: 1 Dated: (March 1989) Pages: 55-60
Author(s)
L Oliver
Date Published
1989
Length
6 pages
Annotation
The problems of establishing identity of historically significant skeletonized human remains are compounded by incomplete written and photographic records and through lack of standardized methods of recording and storing data.
Abstract
Identities were established for three executed criminals, whose remains were accidentally disinterred in Kamloops, British Columbia, through combining data from archival research with that obtained through forensic anthropology analyses. Photographs. 17 references. (Publisher abstract)