Large-scale forensic investigations into the missing: Challenges and considerations

Puerto, Mercedes Salado; Tuller, Hugh

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.08.025

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“… Given its multidimensional nature, the Search process requires a dynamic, multifactorial and interconnected dialogue of the information collected throughout the investigation that should facilitate and contribute to decision-making. Large-scale events [ 7 ], unlike routine death investigations, require a broad approach in which mechanisms and protocols need to be adapted to properly address them, with a strict adherence to the scientific, forensic and investigative principles of the identification process. Forensic and legal communities have the duty to assign roles and responsibilities in accordance with legal mandates and their skill sets so that forensic experts, police investigators and legal authorities coordinate their approach in an optimal, transparent, effective and efficient manner.…”

Section: General Aspects and Principlesmentioning

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The search process: Integrating the investigation and identification of missing and unidentified persons

Puerto¹,

Abboud

Baraybar

et al. 2021

Forensic Science International: Synergy

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The effective search for the missing and identification of persons, alive or dead, are core components in the prevention and in resolving the issue of Missing Persons. Despite the growing literature on this topic, there is still a lack of publications describing the Search as a process that includes different phases inherently composed of forensic investigative and identification principles for both living and deceased missing persons. This paper is the result of discussions between the Forensic Unit of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and members of its external Forensic Advisory Board. It aims to present the Search process as an overarching concept that includes the investigation and identification phases of the missing in any state (dead or alive), in any scenario (with or without bodies), with an integrated, multidisciplinary, and multiagency approach for implementation by all actors involved in the investigation and identification phases of missing persons.

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Section: General Aspects and Principlesmentioning

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“…Large-scale events [ 7 ], unlike routine death investigations, require a broad approach in which mechanisms and protocols need to be adapted to properly address them, with a strict adherence to the scientific, forensic and investigative principles of the identification process.…”

Section: General Aspects and Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The search process: Integrating the investigation and identification of missing and unidentified persons

Puerto¹,

Abboud

Baraybar

et al. 2021

Forensic Science International: Synergy

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“…All this has to do with time and funds constraints and keeping in mind the political establishment of that country where the investigation is being held. 37 The DNA profiling and DNA databank can be very useful in identifying missing persons. 38 Internationally accepted guidelines are lacking though Interpol guidelines are being applied at many places.…”

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Forensic Nursing in Humanitarian Forensics

Gorea

2020

IJETV

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Humanitarian forensics has been established as a new entity, and it is bound to develop as a robust branch of science. It is a multidisciplinary subject with the involvement of experts from different fields of science. Forensic nursing too is an upcoming branch of nursing science and is a relatively new discipline of science. Forensic nursing science is expanding in various countries. This paper will describe and discuss the various important aspects of Humanitarian forensics and forensic nurses' utility in humanitarian forensics and discuss the future role of forensic nurses in humanitarian forensics.

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“…However, when employed by perpetrators of crime this type of burial highlights a total lack of respect and compassion for the dead by those responsible for the killings [24]. It has also been argued that the magnitude of the crimes represented by a mass grave is much greater than that of a single burial [25,26]. The value of evidentiary and investigative information provided by the scientific investigation of mass graves has been well demonstrated by the results from excavations of mass graves in Latin America in the mid-1980s [27], and subsequently in the mid-1990s in the former Yugoslavia [28,29] and more recently in Spain [30].…”

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Exploring non-invasive approaches to assist in the detection of clandestine human burials: developing a way forward

Blau

Sterenberg

Weeden³

et al. 2018

Forensic Sciences Research

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The analyses of physical evidence recovered from clandestine single and mass graves have been demonstrated to be of significant evidential and/or investigative value for both court purposes and humanitarian investigations. The detection of these types of graves is, therefore, pivotal to forensic investigations. This article reviews different remote and ground-based methods that have been used to attempt to detect deliberately concealed burial sites and summarizes the experimental research that has, to date, been undertaken in order to improve grave detection. The article then presents the preliminary findings of research being undertaken at the Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (AFTER). This research, the first of its kind to be undertaken in the southern hemisphere, is based on experimental single and mass graves using human cadavers. The research is centred on current remote sensing methods and techniques combined with the analysis of the effects of below-ground temperature and moisture and ground-based weather data. It is hoped that identifying successful sensors and detectors will be beneficial to national and international agencies that are involved in forensic as well as humanitarian investigations that require the detection of deliberately concealed gravesites.

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Large-scale forensic investigations into the missing: Challenges and considerations

Cited by 30 publications

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The search process: Integrating the investigation and identification of missing and unidentified persons

The search process: Integrating the investigation and identification of missing and unidentified persons

Forensic Nursing in Humanitarian Forensics

Exploring non-invasive approaches to assist in the detection of clandestine human burials: developing a way forward

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