When a body is found burned beyond visual identification, there are certain steps a County Sheriff, or the officers called to the scene, must follow. If there is any bone fragments and no soft tissue it would be a very wise thing to call in a forensic anthropologist. Their specialty is the skeleton and from even very little pieces of bone, they are able to identify whether or not the skeleton is human or nonhuman. …showed first 75 words of 719 total…

…showed last 75 words of 719 total…with real experience with bones and a big drama could have been avoided. They automatically thought it was a murdered young girl and the media went crazy. As soon as an expert got a chance to look at the bones they concluded it was only a bear. It is very important for officials to get help when they are not experts in the field of forensics, because it only helps the case get solved quicker.