What Really Happened To Grigori Rasputin
Final Case Study:
What Really Happened to Grigori Rasputin
Cynthia L. Moss
Student ID: 4203947
American Military University
Abstract
Forensic anthropologists work on current criminal investigations and historical questions. For this assignment, the student will choose one modern forensic case and the forensic anthropologist who is/was associated with the case. The student will systematically identify the role of the forensic anthropologists in the recovery efforts; describe the laboratory techniques and analysis methods that the forensic anthropologist used to identify the victim(s) and the circumstances of their death. Students will conclude their assignment by discussing how and if this particular case made an impact on our understanding of forensic anthropology or forensic science. Students have complete creativity in this assignment and may choose any number of modern cases that interest them. The important consideration is that the case be modern (for example: Casey Anthony murder trial, Amanda Knox murder trial, O.J. Simpson murder trial) or be an old case revisited by a modern forensic anthropologist (examining the remains of Francisco Pizzaro, or Czar Nicholas II).
Case background
The death of Grigori Rasputin 1916, Russia
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With the original investigation being done by the Russian police, modern forensic sciences have aided in curiosities of this historical case. Senior forensic pathologist and head of the Department of Forensic Medicine at the University of Dundee, Professor Derrick Pounder is one to have reexamined this particular case. Historical author Andrew Cook commissioned Professor Pounder to do an independent review on the autopsy report of Rasputin from 1916. Due to the fact this was a historical case, the professor was not part of the recovery
What Really Happened to Grigori Rasputin
Cynthia L. Moss
Student ID: 4203947
American Military University
Abstract
Forensic anthropologists work on current criminal investigations and historical questions. For this assignment, the student will choose one modern forensic case and the forensic anthropologist who is/was associated with the case. The student will systematically identify the role of the forensic anthropologists in the recovery efforts; describe the laboratory techniques and analysis methods that the forensic anthropologist used to identify the victim(s) and the circumstances of their death. Students will conclude their assignment by discussing how and if this particular case made an impact on our understanding of forensic anthropology or forensic science. Students have complete creativity in this assignment and may choose any number of modern cases that interest them. The important consideration is that the case be modern (for example: Casey Anthony murder trial, Amanda Knox murder trial, O.J. Simpson murder trial) or be an old case revisited by a modern forensic anthropologist (examining the remains of Francisco Pizzaro, or Czar Nicholas II).
Case background
The death of Grigori Rasputin 1916, Russia
Throughout history, man has been born and man …show more content…
With the original investigation being done by the Russian police, modern forensic sciences have aided in curiosities of this historical case. Senior forensic pathologist and head of the Department of Forensic Medicine at the University of Dundee, Professor Derrick Pounder is one to have reexamined this particular case. Historical author Andrew Cook commissioned Professor Pounder to do an independent review on the autopsy report of Rasputin from 1916. Due to the fact this was a historical case, the professor was not part of the recovery