Cadaver dog and handler team capabilities in the recovery of buried human remains in the Southeastern United States

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 617-621

  Lasseter, Alanna E ^a   Jacobi, Keith P ^a   Farley, Ricky ^b   Hensel, Lee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Buried remains; Cadaver dog; Decomposition; Detection; Forensic anthropology; Forensic science

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CADAVER IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SKELETON; SUMMER; TIME OF DEATH; UNITED STATES;

ALABAMA; ANIMALS; CADAVER; CLIMATE; DOGS; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SMELL;

EID: 0038711005     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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