The case in this chapter is about a missing little girl who, for the sake of privacy, is given the false name Rosemarie Lynn Gilley. The forensic anthropologist on the case, H. Gill-King, started the chapter off by describing a "skull-to-photo superimposition." (Video superimposition technique). The process by which an image of the deceased individual's skull has an image of the suspected deceased subject superimposed over it to look for similarities and differences in facial features. For this practice to be used, the image of the child from when they were alive cannot be more than six months old from the time that they disappeared. This is protocol for cases involving deceased children as their facial features go through incredibly speedy changes. From the superimposed images, Gill-King described certain facial features of the missing girl as following" the outlines of the skull like an artist's tracing." He mentions several skeletal attributes such as the auditory meatus, nasal bridge, and maxilla in relation to their similar (identical?) positions on the girls fleshy face. He also observes the dental details from both images and further proves that the images are indeed from the same individual. One such dental detail being the 90˚ rotation of the left maxillary incisor which aligned perfectly in the superimposed images. …show more content…
"These triangles were defined by the base angles at the frontomaxillary sutures and vertices at the nasal spine and the central diastema, respectively." On the face of the child, the lines of the triangles lined up with the "outer corners of the eyes" and vertices of the bulb of the nose and the gap between the teeth (visible in the smiling image). The software for this method of identification allowed for the fading of one image over the other to examine whether or not the triangle matched each