Dr Jamie Pringle j.k.pringle@keele.ac.uk
Electrical resistivity survey to search for a recent clandestine burial of a homicide victim, UK.
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Abstract
This case report details an electrical resistivity survey to assist the search for a suspected 1-year-old clandestine burial of a murder victim in North Wales in the UK. Conventional search techniques (victim recovery dogs and probing) proved unsuccessful, and with a significant survey area and a high clay content soil precluding GPR as a geophysical search method, a resistivity survey was instead trialled. Ten resistivity grids were collected and site detrended with user-specified, contoured anomalies being generated. The resulting anomalies were compared to anomalies derived from similar-aged, simulated clandestine burial surveys. Seven anomalies with comparative sizes and amplitudes (±3O) of the simulated burials were identified within the search area and prioritised for further investigation. The shallowly buried victim was subsequently recovered outside the survey area.
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Pringle. (2010). Electrical resistivity survey to search for a recent clandestine burial of a homicide victim, UK. Forensic Science International, e1 - e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.04.023
Acceptance Date | Apr 13, 2010 |
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Publication Date | Oct 10, 2010 |
Journal | Forensic Science International |
Print ISSN | 0379-0738 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Pages | e1 - e7 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.04.023 |
Keywords | burial, crime victims, electric impedance, female, forensic sciences, geographic information systems, geological phenomena, homicide, humans, soil, forensic geoscience, geophysics, resistivity, clandestine grave |
Publisher URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379073810001970 |
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