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Four Years to Day One
A Saga of Science and Inquest

How a small town murder investigation stimulated science on the forensic frontier.

At first, no one knew how she died or when she was disposed of in a shallow grave on a ridge above Mammoth Lakes, California. Her remains were found in 2003. It has taken four years to figure out who she is.

“In homicide investigation, on Day One you want to know who the victim is, and if it’s a woman who the husband or boyfriend is,” Detective Paul Dostie said. Dostie, a propensive 20-year veteran of the Mammoth Lakes Police Department (MLPD), caught the case. Mammoth Lakes, a ski resort community 8,000 feet up the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada, doesn’t get many murders. This was his third homicide. ...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
12 Case Number 03-0929: Murder in Mammoth Lakes
PAUL DOSTIE

19 Four Years to Day One: A Saga of Science and Inquest
DOUGLAS PAGE

28 Tracing Unidentified Skeletons Using Stable Isotopes
HENRY P. SCHWARCZ, Ph.D.

32 Using HLA and Mitochondrial DNA Polymorphisms to Identify Geographic/Ethnic Origins: The Mammoth Lakes Case
HENRY A. ERLICH, Ph.D. AND CASSANDRA D. CALLOWAY, MS

42 Who Says You Can’t Do That?
Crime Scene 3D Viewpoints – Illustrating What Was Seen at the Scene
DOUG SCHIFF

48 The Safety Guys: Introduction to Clandestine Drug Laboratories – A Serious Health and Safety Concern
VINCE MCLEOD, CIH AND GLENN KETCHAM, CIH

51 Most Wanted: Answers to Facility Issues Facilities that Support the Front Line
KEN MOHR

54 Digital Insider: Quality Assurance Practices for Computer Forensics – Part 3
JOHN J. BARBARA

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Forensic Magazine is a business-to-business magazine published by Vicon Publishing, Inc.

The first issue was published in Spring 2004.

It has a circulation of more than 8,000 print subscribers (BPA Worldwide Membership Applied For June 2006), plus digital subscribers.

Forensic Magazine is published six (6) times per year. It provides information on various aspects of forensic technology, products, equipment, and laboratory design to professionals who are responsible for forensic laboratories and crime scene investigation.

The editorial offices of the magazine are in Amherst, NH.

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