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The Detection of Human Remains [Hardcover]

Edward W. Killam (Author)

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Hardcover: 263 pages
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd (May 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0398056625
ISBN-13: 978-0398056629
Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds

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I'm an LEO and a SAR coordinator. When I started getting tasked in assisting with management and manpower on forensic searches, I purchased this book. It's been very useful not for the search theory but for the basic, "executive summary" type technology review (ground penetrating radar, infrared aerial photography, various seismic type systems)as well as a basic overall methodology. I use the section on recognizing graves for instructing volunteers. I don't know if evidence folks and the homicide dets are exposed to this technology, but if you are tasked with trying to find a remote grave site, this is a great first book.

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The detection and recovery of buried bodies is not a concern just to law enforcement. Read the first page

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show insufficient contrast, infrared scanner imagery, parapsychological methods, parapsychological techniques, geophysical prospecting techniques, geophysical prospecting methods, slow coverage, search supervisor, electrode spread, gravity surveying, dowsing tool, metal litter, search head, forensic archaeology, oblique photography, psychic should, subsurface damage, map dowsing, thermal imagery, proton magnetometer, vapor detector, foot search, shock point, one gamma, resistivity surveys

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Death, Decay and Reconstruction: Approaches to Archaeology and Forensic Science by A. Boddington on 4 pages
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