The book “Death’s Acre” by Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson is a book about like in the legendary forensic lab. In the book a baby named charley Lindbergh JR. was kidnapped. They found the body of the toddler, near the house at were her lived. They later on found out after a lot of studies that the body was incorrectly identified. The man that was accused of murdering the toddler was Bruno Hauptman who was a carpenter. He was later sentenced to the electric chair and died on April of 1936.
Patricia Cornwell who is the person who told all the forensics stories started her career as a result of an early morning traffic accident. The accident was just outside of Frankfort, Kentucky in 1954. The accident was caused when 2 trucks collided on a 2 lane highway. After the accident they found 3 bodies in the vehicles both drivers were easily identified but the 3rd body was a mystery.
Dr. Walton M. Krogman was the most famous bone detective in the 1940’s and 50’s. He was a physical anthropologist alone with two Smithsonian colleagues and created the science of forensic anthropology. He was considered the great forensic authority. During World War the US government had him waiting in the wings to identify the remains of Adolf Hitler.
Before someone can tell who someone was and how they died they always had to find out the 4 big things which are the sex of the person, the race, age and stature.
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