Stable isotope forensics offers hope in homicides
Photo credit: Royal Newfoundland Constabulary | The partially reconstructed skull of a man whose remains were found in 2001 in Newfoundland, Canada.
Canadian police are using an advanced forensic technique to help determine the identity of a homicide victim who may have traveled or lived in the area around New York City in the months before he died in the late 1990s.
The forensic tool, known as stable isotope analysis, determines the concentration of certain isotopes in the body, which in turn can help show where a victim may have been...
