Four Years To Day One: A Saga of Science and Inquest
How a small town murder investigation stimulated science on the forensic frontier.
At first, no one knew how she died or when she was disposed of in a shallow grave on a ridge above Mammoth Lakes, California. Her remains were found in 2003. It has taken four years to figure out who she is.
"In homicide investigation, on Day One you want to know who the victim is, and if it's a woman who the husband or boyfriend is," Detective Paul Dostie said. Dostie, a propensive 20-year veteran of the Mammoth Lakes Police Department (MLPD), caught the case. Mammoth Lakes, a ski resort community 8,000 feet up the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada, doesn't get many murders. This was his third homicide.
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