Complexity of Assessing Migrant Death Place of Origin

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Complexity of Assessing Migrant Death Place of Origin

ROSS, Ann H., Chelsey A. JUAREZ and Petra URBANOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Complexity of Assessing Migrant Death Place of Origin

Name in Czech

Complexity of Assessing Migrant Death Place of Origin

Authors

ROSS, Ann H. (840 United States of America), Chelsey A. JUAREZ (840 United States of America) and Petra URBANOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

2016. vyd. New York, Biological Distance Analysis. Forensic and Bioarchaeological Perspectives, p. 265-283, 19 pp. First Edition, 2016

Publisher

Elsevier

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

30501 Forensic science

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/16:00090545

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

ISBN

978-0-12-801966-5

Keywords in English

Cold cases; Ancestry assessment; Multifactorial approach; Geometric morphometrics; 3D-ID; isotopes

Abstract

V originále

The recent increase in the number of missing persons and unidentified dead in the U.S., which has resulted in the consequence of an increase in the total count of cold cases, has triggered multiple requests from medical examiner’s offices and law enforcement agencies to re-evaluate original biological profiles derived from these unsolved cases. General misconception that a positive DNA match can always be provided in conjunction with questionable, mostly outdated methodology used for profiling and incorrect understanding of geographic origins of deceased individuals has led to many erroneous assessments of biological parameters. This chapter illustrates how these cases can be solved by a complex multifactorial analysis relying on more than a single strategy. In the present study, a geometric morphometric landmark-based approach was combined with an analysis of strontium, oxygen and hydrogen isotopes and applied to North Carolina cold cases. Although official reports indicate that the geographic origin of Hispanics in North Carolina is approximately 61 % Mexican, the region of provenance for deceased immigrants found in these states is less straightforward. The analyzed indicators suggest that the re-examined cold cases are morphologically closer to samples from Panama and Guatemala rather than to Mexican individuals. The combined approach also shows that although the point of entry for the undocumented immigrants is likely the US-Mexico border other regions of origin such as South America (Peru, Chile), Honduras and El Salvador should be considered.

Links

MUNI/A/1379/2015, interní kód MU

Name: Rozvoj analytických nástrojů pro studium tělesných znaků člověka se zaměřením na analýzu dynamiky pohybu

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

ROSS, Ann H., Chelsey A. JUAREZ and Petra URBANOVÁ. Complexity of Assessing Migrant Death Place of Origin. In Marin A. Pilloud; Joseph T. Hefner. Biological Distance Analysis. Forensic and Bioarchaeological Perspectives. 2016th ed. New York: Elsevier, 2016, p. 265-283. First Edition. ISBN 978-0-12-801966-5.

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ROSS, Ann H., Chelsey A. JUAREZ and Petra URBANOVÁ. Complexity of Assessing Migrant Death Place of Origin. In Marin A. Pilloud; Joseph T. Hefner. \textit{Biological Distance Analysis. Forensic and Bioarchaeological Perspectives}. 2016th ed. New York: Elsevier, 2016, p.~265-283. First Edition. ISBN~978-0-12-801966-5.

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