Bone to Pick: Forensic Case Files

Welcome to Bone to Pick: Forensic Case Files. You are the new trainee at a forensic anthropology lab. This is where bones with no name and no story end up. A bombing, a riverbed, white bone in an incinerator's ash. Read what the bones say, and give the missing dead their names back. That is your mission.EXAMINING THE EVIDENCEShine the light, run the swab. You've watched those hands on TV. Now they're yours.CLEANING THE BONENothing starts until the bone is clean.

And what's in your sink is not the dishes.LAYING OUT THE SKELETONSometimes the clue is the part that isn't there. Set every bone where it belongs.REFITTING THE FRAGMENTSCases leave bones broken. Fit the pieces back together and find what the damage was hiding.FIRING THE LASERSometimes an identity comes down to one tooth, shaved with a laser. Which is not just for show.MATCHING THE WEAPONCompare the mark left at the scene and name the weapon. Want to try all of them?

After the case is closed, please.QUESTIONING THE SUSPECTPut the bad guys behind bars! Every piece of evidence you find brings you closer to the truth. Read age, sex, old injuries and cause of death from the bones. Pick diatoms out of river mud under a microscope, cast a tire track or an animal's bite mark, and comb the scene for the evidence everyone else walked past. Forensics takes many forms. Rigorous science, a warm atmosphere.…