No Bone Unturned: Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America’s Most Notorious Crimes and Disasters

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A curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Doug Owsley painstakingly rebuilds skeletons, helping to identify them and decide their cause of death. He has worked on a couple of notorious cases — from mass graves uncovered in Croatia to the terrorist attacks at the Pentagon — and has examined historic skeletons tens of thousands of years old. However the discovery of Kennewick Man, a 9,600-year-old human skeleton found along the banks of Washington’s Columbia River, used to be a find that would turn Owsley’s life the other way up.

Days before Owsley used to be scheduled to study the skeleton, the federal government seized it to bury Kennewick Man’s bones at the land of the Native American tribes who claimed him. Together with other leading scientists, Owsley sued the U.S. government over custody. Concerned that knowledge about our past and our history would be lost without end if the bones were reburied, Owsley fought a legal and political battle for six years, putting the whole lot at risk, jeopardizing his career and his reputation.

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