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Cutting edge forensic techniques identify hand from 1948 plane crash

Researchers and scientists using specifically- developed forensic science
techniques have finally identified an arm and hand found buried in an
Alaskan glacier 60 years ago. It took nine years of cutting edge DNA
and fingerprint research and genealogical studies to identify the
remains of a Roanoke, Va., native. The 1948 plane crash killed all of
its passengers – Merchant Marines returning from China. In 1999, the
crash site was located within a glacier, and the=2 0preserved arm and
hand were discovered. A fact sheet is available with more detailed
information.

A teleconference will be held tomorrow August 15 2008, at George
Washington University with researchers and experts in Alaska and D.C.
Present will be: Edward Robinson, prof at GWU who did the fingerprint
indentification, Odile Loreille, PhD from AFDIL who did the DNA
indentification, Colleen Fitzpatrick, PhD, the forensic genealogist who
found the family reference for DNA comparison, and Kevin McGregor, one
of the pilots who discovered the arm and hand. McGregor will have with
him the ring found close to the hand and parts of the plane crash.

NPR did a 45 minute interview with Geoff Bleakley, Historian at the
Wrang ell Saint Elias National Park, in August 1999 when the remains
were first discovered. This would be a good followup to this interview
as we bring the case to a close.

If you are unable to attend and are interested in the story, we can
arrange interviews for a later time. Time and location of the press
conference are below. Let me know if you have any questions.

Friday, Aug. 15, 2008; 2pm
George Washington University
Rome Hall, Room 351
801 22nd St., NW
Washington DC

Michelle Sherrard | Assistant Director of Media Relations | The George
Washington University
o: 202.994.1423

Wow, how interesting. I love forensic science. And I love the idea that today's mysteries will be unlocked tomorrow.

Blue,

in the 'history of man', this is the way it's always gone; we hold all kinds of beliefs and superstitions, many based on whacko imaginings....and then, viola, something comes along, and shows 'this is how it really is'. lol! i find living to be an excruciating detective novel sometimes (Mr. Brooks, with the candlestick in the bedroom lol!), as well as a comic book....
reb

But Reb, isn't living also subject to the rules of absurdity? We both know how the universe can laugh....

This dna journey rewriting history and puncturing mispreconceptions is a good example of that.

mel, as far as i can tell, everything is subject to the rule of absurdity; the only problem is, it's 'us' that judges that it's absurd, therefore, it may not be absurd at all, only some plan that is beyond our pea brained understanding lol! humans like to think that they are the reason for the universe 'being'; it may not be so; planets may be the bird droppings of some intergalactic wonkus, with a wingspan of 10 billion lightyears....

this is the problem with being an egocentric human being, we can only define things as if they were 'all about us'. which, before someone freaks out, let me assure you, it is!it is! it's all about us! we all KNOW this...

having said all that, and none of it meaning anything, i therefore return you to your regular channel. this has been a test of the national rebcasting system peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Oh, but it means everything! It does! Really! lmao....