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4getmenot | 23:23 Wed 21st Jul 2010 | ChatterBank
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If they have to identify people by their dental records as they dont know who the person is...... How do they know who the peoples dentists are?
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they can only do this if they have a good idea who the body is, then they can clarify with the dentist.
I've often wondered that, 4get - I suspect they do that when they have an idea who it might be. I'm not aware that there is a central registry of teeth, the way there is for fingerprints.
talking of murders.. did someone kill off that lonely Spanish number man?
What if they have no teeth :-S
Well I often think that 4get. I think that if your name was John Smith and you had moved around a fair bit and not bothered to change your dentists it might take while. However, it could be done if a dentist kept the records for long enough.
They don't. They circulate the records to all dentists in the UK.

Anyway, when I saw the title of your post, I thought that you were making a reference to the murder of the English language, which happens almost constantly around here ;-)
No Sara, NoM tracked him down and is stalking him as we speak.
Barmaid, I find that quite reassuring, so I'm off to bed!

night all x
Chris - irony will get you knowhere!!!!!
Irony, Barmaid?
That reminds me. I'm going to the laundrette tomorrow and I might take advantage of their irony (but at about £1 per shirt it's a a bit expensive!)
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what if they have no head, in the 70's a headless woman was found in our town and to this day she has never been indentified, she was found in her nightie surely someone missed her? There is just a nameless gravestone in cemetary
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sorry 'there's' its just laziness rather than bad spelling
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another unidentified man -

On 26 March 1971, Former Constable David Nathan found a skull in a field off Newton Road. After police excavated, a body was found, the murdered man had his hands tied behind his back and his feet lashed. He was in a sitting position and was naked except for a pair of mustard coloured socks and a golden ring. he had undergone extensive dental work less than six months before his death. He was white, with short, brown hair and about 5 ft 8 ins tall, had a prominent bottom jaw and suffered from torticollis - a neck condition that would have caused his head to lean to the right. In November 2006, his face was reconstructed in the hope he would be recognised, but to no avail. In October 2008, a book was published in the hope someone would be able to solve the murder.

So why couldnt they find his dentist?
<<BM laughs at Chris but bangs her head against the wall>>

That is quite sad 4get that no one missed her. I always found it sad when I worked in probate and I would visit houses where someone had lain dead for weeks. I always thought it was dreadful that no one missed them, no one checked on them and no one cared.
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and another

On 23 October 1979, a mystery woman aged between 30 and 35 was found in Bedgebury Forest having been beaten to death. The discovery lead to a murder enquiry but she was never identified. It was thought she had come from Eastern Europe and had one child. She was white, about 5 ft 1 in, of thin build, with brown eyes and dark brown, shoulder-length straight hair. When found she was wearing black shoes, a floral dress and a black polo neck jumper. Police had re-investigated the case in 1999, and in May 2000 Harry Pennells from East Sussex stood trial for her murder but was acquitted after a four-week trial. Still more than 20 years on, her identity remains a mystery and the crime unsolved.

How could someone stand trial for it? 'you are accused with the murder of whatshername'
Who could possibly accuse you of bad spelling, 4getmenot?
(Er, it should be 'cemetery' by the way!)

Back in the 1970s there weren't the DNA techniques which currently exist. If a possible blood relative to the deceased could now be identified, a DNA test would quickly show whether they'd correctly identified the body. However unless someone suggests a possible name for a body there is still nothing for the police (and forensic services) to go on.
Well I suppose you could stand trial on the basis that your dna was on the body. That only proves contact though, not guilt.
Nothing like a light-hearted thread at this time of night is there? (;-))
Our resident barrister obviously isn't in 'criminal mode' tonight.

If my DNA was found on a dead body it would NOT prove 'contact'. For example I could have dried my hands on a towel, which was later used by the victim when I was hundreds of miles away.
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Who frigging cares its quarter to 12 and I'm tired, anyways the site I'm reading on wilkepedia about unsolved murders is quite interesting, theres a few where they must be the same people killing them

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