IDENTIFICATION

Identity of a Murder Victim

Identity of a Murder Victim

Introduction

Identifying a dead body was a very difficult task, especially when the body was beyond recognition. There are many heinous criminals who torture the body so much that the body becomes beyond recognition. However, fortunately, the progress of the various techniques used in allow identification of bodies give solutions, with more and more greater speed and reliability, the particular issues that each point event raises. There are various ways to identify a deceased person whether the body is damaged or not.

This paper discusses the methods in which the murder victim can be identified. The paper also explains how a murder victim can be recognized when only teeth and bones of the victim are available for examination.

Methods of Identifying a Murder Victim

There are various ways to identify a murder victim. Following are some of the methods through which one can identify a murder victim.

Confrontation Identification

It is the simplest method of identification, the family members and friends identify the deceased by looking at the body. This identification is done in the case when the facial features are not damaged (Kullman & Cipi, 2002). This is possibly the easiest and primary method of identifying a victim. When a dead body of a murdered victim is found the police firstly tries to find the relatives of the dead person in a case when the facial features of the body are intact.

DNA

Except in twins everyone has a unique DNA. A sample of an individual can be compared with others to identify bodies. A DNA or genetic profile, is the result of a genetic analysis , making it possible to identify a person from a small amount of its biological tissues (hair bulb, blood, saliva, semen). The genetic fingerprint is based on the following fact: although two people have ...