The Future of Victim Identification
Australian True Crime
Bravecasting
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Professor Richard Bassed is the Deputy Director at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and the Head of the Department of Forensic Medicine at Monash University.
I had the opportunity to interview Richard for my book "CSI Told You Lies" about his work in identifying victims in mass casualty events, such as the Black Saturday Bushfires and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.
Currently, Richard is deeply invested in researching and utilising AI technology, as it has the potential to make a significant difference in the speed and cost of victim identification.
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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram
Guest: Professor Robert Bassed
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| 0:00.0 | Sydney, you are the first cab off the rank this Friday for our Australian True Crime Live Show tour. |
| 0:07.0 | If you haven't got your tickets yet, make sure you go to the link in the bio now to see what tickets are available. |
| 0:14.7 | Come and see criminologist Dr. Zanthi Mallet as we dive into some really interesting |
| 0:19.2 | true crime stories in person. |
| 0:21.8 | Brisbane and Melbourne, we still have tickets for our live shows |
| 0:25.4 | on Saturday and Sunday. The Melbourne Live Show features retired homicide |
| 0:30.3 | detective Charlie Bazina so check the link in the description of this |
| 0:33.7 | podcast to secure your tickets. This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests. |
| 0:39.6 | So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children. |
| 0:43.5 | And it probably will contain content that may be triggering to some people. |
| 0:47.5 | Also, it's an Australian true crime podcast. |
| 0:50.3 | So Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people. |
| 0:57.0 | The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 1:10.0 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 1:19.7 | This is something I'm really like invested in in terms of what a difference it could make. So if you think about |
| 1:25.6 | Thailand, the tsunami, everyone drowned pretty much. There was some traumatic injuries from being |
| 1:30.4 | rolled around and that sort of stuff. But most of the bodies were just |
| 1:32.8 | drowned. They were all bought to the Buddhist temple and they were all found, most of |
| 1:37.8 | them in the resorts that they were booked into or on the beaches near the |
| 1:41.2 | resorts they were booked into. They were all found when they were completely |
| 1:44.1 | undecomposed, not traumatized in the most part, and just dead. If we had have had someone to be able to take a properly instructed photograph of their face at that time, |
| 1:56.9 | and then we had an algorithm that could recognize to cease people, |
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