At ISHI 35, Meradeth Houston Snow—who runs the Forensic Anthropology program at the University of Montana—gave an update on her team’s efforts to restore the names of the individuals who died at that labor camp between 1875 and 1911.
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Of the 20 awards made nationwide under this program in 2024, Texas State University was the only institution to receive multiple awards, its three recipients comprising 15%?of the national awardee pool.
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Renowned forensic anthropologist Robert Mann of the University of Hawai?i at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) has examined more than 15,000 ancient and modern human skeletons throughout his career. This summer, he was invited to analyze human remains from a newly unearthed area in ancient Pompeii, marking one of the most fascinating investigations of his career.
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The Montgomery County Coroner's Office has confirmed the identity of skeletal remains discovered in Towamencin Township earlier this year. The remains have been identified as those of Isaias Hernandez-Geronimo, a 34-year-old male who had recently moved to the United States.
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Skeletal remains discovered more than 20 years ago in Charlotte County have been identified thanks to DNA technology.
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Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum announced today the first identification of a Tulsa Race Massacre victim since the City started the physical part of its 1921 Graves Investigation five years ago. The identification is a man by the name of C. L. Daniel, a World War 1 U.S. Army Veteran whose next of kin’s DNA is tied with Burial 3 from the 2021 excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery.
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Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre announced two people have been arrested and charged with the murder of a Golden Meadow woman in 1986. Russell Lee and Judith “Judy” Weiser have been charged with the murder of 22-year-old Paula Boudreaux back in August of 1986.
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Sheriff Hobart Lewis (of the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office in SC) held a press conference announcing a significant breakthrough in the cold case formerly known as "Mr. X." This case, which originated in 1975, involved the discovery of an unidentified body by a hunter near Hwy 20 and Blakely Road.
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In March 2015, the skeletal remains of an unidentified individual were discovered by a hiker off a bicycle path in Setauket, New York. Setauket is a community on the North Shore of Long Island.
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Using new archaeological and bioarchaeological technologies, investigators from the University of Vienna have found that a grave discovered 20 years ago in present day Austria is much older than anticipated – nearly 500 years older – and could be the first genetic mother-daughter discovery in human history.
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