No Bone Unturned - From Waco to Croatia - The Adventures of a Top Forensic Scientist

This fascinating look inside the world of forensic science unveils a compelling portrait of the man identifying and investigating the human remains in America's most notorious crimes and mass disasters. Doug Owsley, a curator for the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History, has handled over ten thousand human skeletons, from colonial Jamestown burials to those of Native Americans and Civil War soldiers. When the Branch Davidian compound in Waco caught fire, when a terrorist-flown plane crashed into the Pentagon, and when mass graves were uncovered in Croatia, the authorities called on Owsley's extraordinary talents...

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