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To: Ish who wrote (93332)	1/2/2005 9:36:46 PM
From: Ilaine	of 793757

Well, the thing that made me think of DNA swabs was seeing the care some were taking to photograph the dead, or fingerprint them, before the mass burials. Even printing out photos to put on walls for the public to view. And then I was reading that in a lot of places they're saying that the corpses are too bloated, don't even bother coming to ID them, you can't, it's too late. But the forensic people were saying that it's really never too late to ID a cadaver using forensic science. But with so many buried in mass graves, looking for one dead body among thousands would be unworkable. Which got me to thinking about the little wax paper envelopes with cotton swabs that I ordered for geneaology DNA research. It's really low tech at the collecting end. You just need a few cells. Hair from a hair brush will do, if the hairs have roots, but cut hair won't do, you need cells from the scalp. Blood, skin, both easy to collect if you think about it. There is a big difference between the burden of proof in a criminal trial - "beyond a reasonable doubt" - and a civil trial - "preponderance of the evidence." So I don't think that would be a problem.

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