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The Bone LadyMary H. Manhein

The Bone Lady

1999137 pages
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The riveting tale of a true-life crime-fighting scientific sleuth. When a skeleton is all that's left to tell the story of a crime, Mary Manhein, otherwise known as "the bone lady," is called in. For almost two decades, Manhein has used her expertise in forensic anthropology to help law enforcement agents - locally, nationally, and internationally - solve their most perplexing mysteries. In this eerie book she shares the extraordinary details of the often high-profile cases on which she works, and the science underlying her analyses. Here are the fascinating details of how, from a pile of…

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2 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 1999
    Louisiana State University Press · 137 pages · 9780807124048
  • Other · English · 2000
    Penguin Books · 137 pages · 9780140291926
AntiquitiesBiographyForensic anthropologyHuman remans (Archaeology)Physical anthropologyWomen forensic anthropologistsManhein, Mary HWomen, united states, biography