Body identification is a subfield of forensic science that uses a variety of scientific and non-scientific methods to identify a body. Forensic purposes are served by rigorous scientific forensic identification techniques, but these are … See more

Anthropometry
Anthropometry involves examining the size, weight and dimensions of a body. Analysis of the physical aspects can facilitate possible … See more

• Disaster victim identification
• Dump job
• Operation Identify Me
• Unidentified decedent
• Forensic anthropology See more

Traditional scientific identification methods developed in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which allowed forensic scientists to identify a body without formal … See more

In many cases, people who have died while serving in the military remain unidentified. This is due to the destructive nature of their death and how long their remains can go undiscovered. If unidentified bodies of service people are returned to their … See more

Genetics
Alec Jeffreys is known as the "founding father of DNA identification”. He invented DNA fingerprinting in the 1980s to assist in the process of body identification. Since then, the method of DNA typing in forensic science has … See more

• "Naming the Dead: The final stages of DVI" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-03-02. (551 Kb) The Police Association Journal, May 2009, pp. 16–17. Retrieved 28 February 2011
• "Disaster Victim Identification" INTERPOL See more