​Instructor: 
Dr. Teresa 'Lilly' White
Course length:   2 hours

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Forensic Recovery of Scattered & Buried Human Remains

Introduction:

Law Enforcement officers, forensic personnel, crime scene investigators, and medicolegal death investigators are often called to investigate the accidental discovery of scattered human remains and/or clandestine or exposed burials; and, if necessary-to excavate, preferably under the supervision of a forensic anthropologist. Resources and time are often scarce. Therefore, it is crucial to understand what processes and techniques of searching, locating, documenting, recovering, packaging, transporting, and storing of human skeletal remains are most efficient, yet thorough. Improper forensic recovery techniques, however well intentioned, have the potential to destroy or leave behind valuable information that may compromise the investigation or hinder the identification process.


Course Objectives:

Attendees of this 2-hour webinar will learn proper search and recovery methods used to locate, document, and recover scattered and buried human remains.


Webinar Topics Include:

Hour 1:
Determining best strategies to maximize data and evidence preservation and to minimize scene and evidence alteration.
Establishing & documenting spatial and contextual associations where evidence is found.

Hour 2:
Recovering all potential evidentiary items for: identification; cause & manner of death (if possible); scene reconstruction; clues to deposition of remains; postmortem interval (PMI); post-deposition taphonomy; geological, entomological & botanical analysis, etc.
Ensuring proper collection, storage, and transportation of human remains and associated materials.
Maintaining proper chain of custody.
Producing report and completing documentation.

 
This course is appropriate for CSI, law enforcement personnel, coroners/medicolegal death investigators, college students, anthropologists, and other forensic specialists and is considered at a basic to intermediate level.


**This course has been approved by the IAI Crime Scene Certification Board for 2 hours of Recertification Only.**

Dr. Teresa 'Lilly' White

Teresa ‘Lilly’ White, PhD, is a native Montanan.  She received her BSLS in 2005 from MSU-B, her BA in Forensic Anthropology in 2011, her MA in Forensic Anthropology in 2013, and her PhD in Anthropology in 2019, from the University of Montana.

Lilly and her husband, Stocky (also a PhD in Anthropology), are the owners of Bone & Stone Anthrosciences, L.L.C., where they provide Anthropological & Archaeological Consulting Services and Educational Workshops to Federal, State, County, Tribal, and City Law Enforcement Personnel, Coroners/Death Investigators, Chaplains, Public Safety Officers, Forensic Practitioners, Physicians and Nurses, Mental Health Practitioners, Funeral Personnel, International Emergency Services companies, and others.

She  teaches courses on: cultural and forensic anthropology, osteology, death investigations, death notification studies including compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma, human decomposition and entomology, thermal and explosives trauma on bodies, bone pathology and taphonomy, forensic recovery of scattered human remains, clandestine grave discovery and excavation, cold case investigations, end-of-life issues, grief facilitation, differentiating perimortem gunshot  trauma from blunt force, after a car fire,  autoerotic asphyxia (AeA), equivocal deaths, bloodstain pattern analysis, social determinants of health for sexual abuse victims, dark tourism, and other fascinating topics.

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