In the featured article “Through the fragments of 9/11” written by Megan Boehnke, describes how Amy Mundorff became New York’s first Forensic Anthropologist. However, the story she tells about her journey is not how typically one would think. Mundorff was personally affected by the 9/11 tragedy that happened in New York 2001. It was her job to identify the remains that were left behind. Amy Mundorff is a mother, a wife, and most importantly New York's first forensic anthropologist. Her story pulls at the heart strings as well as shares her point of view of the tragedy that happened in The United States on September 11th, 2001. The Morning of September 11, 2001 Amy Mundorff was in a meeting with her fellow colleagues at the Medical Examiner’s office in New York before she was about to experience one the most traumatic events in her life as well as having to put her own feelings aside and having to identify those who …show more content…
Mundorff explains how she saw the buildings fall and how she ran towards One World Financial Center across the street when the waves of the debris picked her up and flung her into a wall before piling on top of her”. “She suffered two black eyes, a welt on her forehead, and cracked ribs” as well a respiratory illness that hundreds of other survivors and site workers had developed. Over the next year, Amy Mundorff and her colleagues spent trying their best to identify the remains that were left behind; even the smallest pieces were being tested due to the fact that DNA testing was considered expensive back in 2001 .Mundorff states that “there were about 20,000 human fragments were discovered, and about 5,000 of them were 1nch or smaller. These fragments were specifically being identified through dental records as well as finger prints. “Medical examiners and coroners and other state agencies came to New York to learn about the work Mundorff and her colleagues were
On the evening of september, 1985 Kimberly Simon left her house,New York, to meet a school friend. The next day, officers found her body near the side of a road. She had been reped and srangle to death. Because of misidentification and improper forensic evidence, Steven Barnes was sentence to 25 years to life in prison. But later in 2009 they reopen the case and use new DNA technology to prove his innocence.
The result of this technique indicated that the victim was killed between October 9 and 13. Using three different techniques they obtained very similar data. The last piece to solve this puzzle was to identify the victim. They got a fingerprint from the victim but there was not a match in the database. They move on into the missing people report in which they found a woman name, Darlene Smith who matched all of their forensic evidence.
A middle-aged woman, by the name of Anna Garcia, was found dead inside her home at around 9:00AM. From the findings that we have gathered, I observed that there was a pattern. Things from DNA, crime scene information, to persons of interests. There was unknown DNA at the scene, such as the mystery blood. The crime scene information had many questioning things in it.
The article on CNN, “Police: Remains Found under a Bridge Likely Student Who Vanished in 1998”, starts off with explaining how Robert Kovack had gone missing in 1998 on his way to his parent house in West Virginia. Eighteen Years later there was a body found under the New River Grove Bridge. Turns out there was a wallet and identification confirming that the bones of the body was in fact Kovack. The case has now been reopened and tests are going to be done to figure out what was the cause of death.
In September of 1961, a woman from District of Columbia had an intruder break into her apartment. While the invader of the home was there, they had taken her wallet, and also raped the woman. During the investigation of the crime, the police had found some latent fingerprints in the apartment. The police then established and processed the prints. The prints were then connected back to 16 year old Morris A. Kent.
Texas Servant Girl Murders - (HDSI) In a Public Service Broadcasting History Detectives documentary, a team of forensic scientists and detectives decided to attempt to solve a case more than 130 years old. The “Texas Servant Girl Murders” are a series of murders that took place in Austin, Texas in 1885. These murders have remained a mystery until modern day forensic scientists look back and may have been able to solve this crime easily today.
A great terror struck our nation September 11, 2001, two aircraft’s hit the world trade centers, killing 2000 people and injuring over twice as many. A third aircraft flew into the Pentagon while a fourth crashed in a rural area in Pennsylvania. This day will forever be engrained into history as one of the worst terror attacks faced in this nation. Nearly three years later, in an attempt to figure out what happened on that tragic day, scholars came together to discuss the possible parallels between foreign and domestic terrorist. The author, Michael Kimmel, outlines the possible cause of the 2001 attacks and offers us a link between both foreign and domestic terrorism.
How much do you know about September 11th, 2001? In the city of New York, many people lost the lives of family members, loved ones, and friends. A lot of people went through a tragic time in America’s history. In the personal narrative that Thomas Beller writes, he uses diction, imagery, details, and sentence structure to set the melancholy tone of a tragic event of September 11th.
How has 9/11 Changed American Culture? September 11, 2001 was a harrowing event that took place in New York City, NY. Two foreign terrorists hijacked four planes that were flying above New York, two of which were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. A third terrorist plane crashed into the Pentagon, a paramount government building located in Washington, DC. The fourth and final plane crashed into a nearby field a few miles outside of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
8 Baby Girl is Lone Survivor in Mass Shooting Nytimes.com On the 15th April 1984 a man named Christopher Thomas went on a jealous rampage and murdered ten people in Brooklyn, New York. Seven of his victims were children. This mass murder became known as The Palm Sunday Massacre. He shot all the victims at close range with one of the two handguns he carried with him.
Chaos. Grief. Anger. As a nation we all remember a horrific time in our history that occurred over thirteen years ago. Though I was only five years old at the time, I remember the events of September 11, 2001 as if they happened yesterday.
A woman discovered the bodies of 2 young black men concealed in the vegetation alongside a road in 1979. These murders were the beginning of “Atlanta Child Murders”, which would total, nearly 20 young black males by 1981. These black young men had been strangled or suffocated (Trace evidence Wayne Williams (n.d.). The police had no witnesses only and relied on the forensic evidence of fibers found on the bodies and clothing of the victims.
I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Tuesday September 11th 2001 started off like any other day. Men and women prepared themselves for another work day and school children settled in their seats for a day’s lesson. But before the mornings of people’s everyday life could begin, a tragic incident occurred, killing thousands of American citizens and breaking the hearts of many more. B. Thesis: The World Trade Center crashes were significant in many different ways to the U.S. and when they were destroyed, American citizens were stunned and heartbroken. C. Main Points: 1.
9/11: The Day That Changed America Forever On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists boarded four planes, all transcontinental flights full of jet fuel. 9/11 became the first of many hijackings in the United States. The terrorists turned two flights into flying weapons of destruction, knocking down America’s tallest buildings. The third plane rammed into the Pentagon and the fourth plane was crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.
Raymond matched the brain to the rock, he realized he had both the brain and the skull of an unknown ape-man, but the face was buried in solid rock that would take him 7 weeks to reveal. The two-million-year-old fossil, Taung, was a combination of an ape and a child. It was sad to hear that Taung had wandered and was eaten by an eagle from above, however, Taung was the missing link to Raymond’s discoveries. After further discovering a jawbone, they discovered the distinct smell of burning flesh which suggested that this came from a modern ape that was disguised to look ancient. This finding was surprising to me because I did not think that it was a known thing to fake evidence in the anthropology world.