The Retired Cops Who Identify Corpses the Old-Fashioned Way

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Gene Sullivan and James Cardin have spent a lot of time looking at a dry-erase grid of anonymous dead people. In the squat Joliet, Illinois, building that houses the Will County Coroner's Office, investigators can't rely on touch-screen arrays, white-coated lab assistants, or reams of data accessible in seconds as one might find on a TV crime procedural. Instead, their workplace is adorned with two desktop computers, three archaic printers, and stacks of boxes marked simply: "To be scanned."

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http://www.vice.com/read/the-retired-cops-who-identify-corpses-the-old-fashioned-way

 

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