DNA Doe Project - General Discussion #3

[summergirl1]

I wouldn't have thought of it coming from scattered cremated remains. Interesting. Perhaps it's not the only case like that out there. It certainly may not be the last.

 

[MarziPanda]

It's wild that whoever spotted the piece of skull (which was quite small, coin sized) even saw it in the first place, but then also recognised it as a piece of skull and also recognised it was human. I wonder if that person was a doctor or something! It's always better to be over cautious than under cautious. A piece of bone that small could be all that's left of someone's missing and/or murdered loved one.

The cremation place should have ground up the bones better. I've scattered the ashes of my granny and my grandad and there were no big pieces, it was all very fine. I am glad the mystery has been solved and the case closed.

 

[iamshadow21]

It's wild that whoever spotted the piece of skull (which was quite small, coin sized) even saw it in the first place, but then also recognised it as a piece of skull and also recognised it was human. I wonder if that person was a doctor or something! It's always better to be over cautious than under cautious. A piece of bone that small could be all that's left of someone's missing and/or murdered loved one.

The cremation place should have ground up the bones better. I've scattered the ashes of my granny and my grandad and there were no big pieces, it was all very fine. I am glad the mystery has been solved and the case closed.

What's very remarkable is that they got DNA at all from a piece of bone that had gone through commercial cremation. I would have assumed it would be completely calcinated. That there was a piece that big not ground to powder suggests maybe the place was cutting corners.

MOO