This is the first episode in our latest season featuring missing persons, unsolved homicides,

and unresolved deaths across the United States. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed

are solely the interviewee zone.

This is the fall line.

Today I want to share a project that my friends and colleagues have been working on this year,

something I think that many of our listeners will want to know about.

We've always had an audience who wants to understand forensics and the gaps in our system,

and there are many medical legal

professionals who listen to law enforcement, genealogist, anthropologists, pathologists,

professionals across the spectrum who work on cold cases every single day. So when I heard about

the work that my friend Dr. Amy Michaels been doing this year. I wanted to be sure

to bring it to our platform. Longtime listeners of the fall line will be familiar with Dr. Amy

Michael. She's been a guest on the show many times before, and she was heavily featured in

my book, Lay Them to Rest. She's an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of

New Hampshire, and she's

director of the Forensic Anthropology Identification and Recovery, or Fair Lab.

I'm pleased to feature another friend and colleague, too, Dr. Jen Binkston, whom I met through

Amy, and I wrote about visiting her lab in my book, too.

Jen's a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Southeast Missouri State University.

She established an innovative program at her Seimo Human Osteology Lab to both train her students

and assist law enforcement across the state in the identification of John and Jane Doe's.

Earlier this year, Amy told me about a research project that she'd been working on with

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