{"id":6904,"date":"2013-11-15T10:29:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T15:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2013-11-15T10:29:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T15:29:42","slug":"busm-forensic-anthropology-faculty-published-in-journal-of-forensic-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2013\/11\/15\/busm-forensic-anthropology-faculty-published-in-journal-of-forensic-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSM Forensic Anthropology Faculty Published in Journal of Forensic Identification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty members in BUSM\u2019s program in Forensic Anthropology recently wrote a technical paper \u201cRelaxation of Clenched Digits in Cadaveric Hands to Facilitate the Recovery of Postmortem Friction Ridge Impressions\u201d that will appear in the January\/February 2014\u00a0issue\u00a0<i>of Journal of Forensic Identification<\/i> that demonstrated a simple technique to more easily obtain finger or palm print impressions of deceased\u00a0 individuals. This technique is particularly useful when determining identities resulting from mass casualty incidents.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4544\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2013\/11\/Siwek.jpg\" alt=\"place\" title=\"Siwek\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4544\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donal Siwek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Assistant Professor Donald Siwek, PhD and\u00a0Instructor Gary W. Reinecke, retired FBI, detail how an incision placed at the crease of the wrist to sever the flexor tendons\u00a0allows for access to the palmar surface of the hands in order to record postmortem fingerprint or\u00a0palm print\u00a0impressions for identification purposes. This technique will be proven to be helpful to the Medical Examiner community as well as law\u00a0enforcement in general. Learn more about the Program in Forensic Anthropology at \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/forensicanthro-masters-program\/\">http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/forensicanthro-masters-program\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty members in BUSM\u2019s program in Forensic Anthropology recently wrote a technical paper \u201cRelaxation of Clenched Digits in Cadaveric Hands to Facilitate the Recovery of Postmortem Friction Ridge Impressions\u201d that will appear in the January\/February 2014\u00a0issue\u00a0of Journal of Forensic Identification that demonstrated a simple technique to more easily obtain finger or palm print impressions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}