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''The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases'' is a 2014 non-fiction work that was written by Deborah Halber. It was first published on 1 July 2014 through Simon & Schuster and details the phenomenon of citizens creating and using Internet resources to identify unidentified human remains. In the book, Halber gives firsthand accounts of her interactions with amateur web sleuths; the background of websites such as the Doe Network, and an exploration of the issue of the unidentified in the American medicolegal system. She discusses the history of the science of identification and the use of the Internet for forensic crowdsourcing. == Synopsis == The book covers the following topics: * An overview of the Department of Justice survey to document the unidentified in America * The history and sociology of potters fields * The use of forensic reconstructions on public web sites * The history of Las Vegas Unidentified, the first official public web site featuring the unidentified * The identification of Tent Girl, an unidentified victim discovered in Kentucky in 1968 * Ongoing efforts to identify the Lady of the Dunes, an unidentified victim discovered in Provincetown, Mass., in 1974 * How DNA analysis methods developed in response to 9/11 subsequently helped identify Jane and John Does * Personal stories of web sleuths who became instrumental in cold case identifications * A discussion of law enforcement culture in relation to the public * The future of forensic crowdsourcing 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Skeleton Crew (book)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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