Word: rojanasunan
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...will get around to studying DNA from victims whose bodies prove difficult to identify by other means. Dental records are highly reliable; in many of the inquests that opened last week, they were cited as the basis for identification. The same was true after last year's tsunami. Pornthip Rojanasunan, a Thai forensic scientist who named 2,400 of the roughly 6,000 who died in Thailand, says, "The most useful method in identifying [tsunami] victims was their dental records." Coroners also rely on possessions - clothing, footwear, jewelry, watches, eyeglasses, together with scars, moles, birthmarks, tattoos and identity papers...
...then, have only a tiny proportion of these murders resulted in any arrests? Dr. Pornthip Rojanasunan, a deputy medical examiner, says that in more than half the cases she's seen it has been evident that drugs have been planted on the victims after their deaths?they are found jammed in pockets at unnatural angles. And, she says, "Gangsters don't do that." In other cases, says Somchai Homlaor, secretary-general of Forum Asia, a human-rights group, bullets have been removed from corpses so that they can't be traced...
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