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🗓️ 28 May 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is Death in Ice Valley, an original podcast series from the BBC World Service and NRK. |
0:22.5 | She appears to have been everywhere a stranger and yet she wasn't alone after all. |
0:28.8 | It was not like they were very friendly to each other. |
0:31.5 | It didn't sound like it was friendly. |
0:33.6 | They were arguing, they weren't smiling or anything like that. |
0:39.1 | I'm Mardi Teigroth. |
0:40.9 | And I'm Neil McCarthy and this is episode 7, Mystery Men. |
0:49.4 | So last thing we knew, the isotope results of the teeth were being sent to the other side of the |
0:53.6 | world for analysis by somebody very well qualified. |
0:57.2 | I have to be busy in astrophysicist, chemist, physicist. |
1:01.5 | I have to understand the universe and all these things around us. |
1:05.0 | Just to solve a simple case. |
1:08.4 | Julian Hougivov is a Dutch isotope's expert at the University of Canberra in Australia. |
1:14.2 | He understands what we're made from down to stardust and he applies his knowledge to forensic science, |
1:20.3 | helping the police to crack identification cases. |
1:23.4 | And he studied the isotope results of the Eustal woman. |
1:27.1 | Remember these are traces of elements in the teeth, which can indicate where a person grew up, |
1:32.3 | based on the food and what are they consumed as a child. |
1:35.4 | I'd like to have a very professional approach as a forensic scientist to my casework. |
1:39.9 | So when our colleagues contacted me, he says, well, just give me the results of the teeth. |
1:47.2 | And don't tell me anything about the case, because I don't want to have be biased about |
1:52.0 | where the police might think the person might come from. |
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