Question

It is a gorgeous fall day and people are enjoying it by bicycling, hiking, and picnicking at Itasca State Park. Th e
day’s mood changes however when you receive a phone call from the local sheriff ’s office asking your forensic
anthropology team to come out to the state park.

“A hiker found some bones near Lake Itasca and wants us to come out and identify them. We’re wondering if
these are the three brothers 16, 14, and 12 years of age, who disappeared last summer. Can you help us?”

You tell them that you’ll be there as soon as possible and quickly place a few calls to other members of your
forensic team. You load your SUV and drive over to Itasca State Park to meet your colleagues and investigate
the situation.

1. How would you plan to determine if these are the missing brothers?

Answer 1

With the help of examining the bones we can identify that whether all the three boys are of same or not, by using the bones we can match the DNA profile of these bonds with the parents or relatives of these children's so that identity can be confirmed.

We can also calculate the bone age by calculating the number of of metaphysical lines which represent the bone growth in relation to there is also we can identify the mandible and pelvis or we can use long bones and there oer fusion to calculate the expected age of the children's there are many e features which helped holes in the detection of age like the number of teeth present in the mandible we can calculate there is also due to the epiphysis on metaphysical lines as well as bye using the molecular technology we can match their DNA with the bones which are the sum of the confirmatory evidence.