Publications by authors named "Lyndall Smythe"
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- The paper discusses the challenges of identifying human remains found at Sandy Point, Victoria, where both circumstantial information and preservation were lacking, complicating the identification process.
- Traditional methods like visual or fingerprint identification were impossible due to the state of the remains, leading to the use of a range of techniques including radiocarbon dating and genetic analysis.
- Ultimately, an interdisciplinary approach combining forensic anthropology, odontology, history, and genealogy successfully identified the remains as belonging to Christopher Luke Moore, who drowned in 1928.
Whilst many identification methods have been widely described and discussed in the literature, and considered in disaster and humanitarian contexts, there has been limited reporting and evaluation of the identification methods used in domestic medico-legal death investigation contexts. The aim of this study was to evaluate the identification methods utilised at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM), which forms part of a coronial medico-legal death investigation system. The method of identification and time taken to complete the identification were reviewed for all cases admitted to the VIFM over a five-year period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2020.
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