(MM)
THE TARGET 12
INVESTIGATORS TAKE YOU
INSIDE THE MAFIA:
ANATOMY OF A MOB DIG.
(HE)
WE ARE GETTING A
BEHIND THE SCENES
LOOK...
AT HOW INVESTIGATORS
TACKLE MURDER
INVESTIGATIONS WHERE
THEIR ONLY EVIDENCE IS
SKELETAL REMAINS.
(MM)
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT
WAS EXHUMED FROM
BEHIND A PROVIDENCE
MILL BUILDING IN MARCH.
IT TOOK MONTHS OF
FORENSIC WORK...
BUT INVESTIGATORS
WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY
THE VICTIM.
AND NOW - SEVERAL
PEOPLE ARE FACING
CHARGES --- 25 YEARS
AFTER THE GANGLAND
SLAYING.
(HE)
TARGET 12 INVESTIGATOR
TIM WHITE GOT ACCESS
TO THE STATE MEDICAL
EXAMINER'S OFFICE -- AND
IS HERE NOW WITH THE
DETAILS.
FOR MEDICAL EXAMINERS,
THE CLOCK IS TICKING AS SOON
AS SOMEONE DIES.
AND THE ABILITY TO FIND A
CAUSE AND IDENTITY...
BECOMES EXPONENTIALLY
HARDER AS TIME WEARS ON.
FOR ASSISTANT MEDICAL
EXAMINER PRYA BANARJEE,
HEAVY EQUIPMENT AT A HUMAN
REMAINS DIG SITE.
IS A NECESSARY EVIL.
Dr. Priya Banerjee
Assistant Medical Examiner
white: (5929) does that make you
nervous seeing a backhoe out
there?
priya: Yes it does because when
youve seen skeletonized remains
you know how delicate they are
STATE POLICE CORPORAL SCOT
BARUTI HAS BEEN ON
LOCATION AT MOB BURIAL
SITES...
IN LESS THAN IDEAL
CONDITIONS.
Corporal Scot Baruti
R.I. State Police
If you have remains at 12-13
feet in
frozen soil, (1119) you have to
use
large equipment to get down to
that
depth.
BANE
BANERJEE WORKED ON-SITE AT
THE MARCH MOB DIG OF
STEVEN DISARRO...
WHO INVESTIGATORS SAY WAS
MURDERED BY BOSTON
WISEGUYS IN 1993 AND BURIED
IN PROVIDENCE.
SHE CAN'T TALK ABOUT THAT
CASE SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE
IT IS STILL ON GOING,
BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING,
MEDICAL EXAMINERS REMAIN
ON LOCATION BECAUSE THE
DIG SITE IS A CRITICAL FIRST
STEP.
Dr. Priya Banerjee
Assistant Medical Examiner
We do it in a very systematic
fashion, layer by layer, you
sort
through the soil or whatever is
associated with the body (5426)
SOMETIMES, INVESTIGATORS
GET LUCKY.
Dr. Priya Banerjee
Assistant Medical Examiner
(5700) say someone is shot and
that
bullet is left with the body
when he
or she decomposes into a
skeletal,
thats why the dirt is sifted so
thoroughly, maybe I will recover
a
bullet,
ONCE THE REMAINS ARE
COLLECTED, THEY ARE
BROUGHT BACK HERE...
TO THE STATE MEDICAL
EXAMINERS OFFICE.
THE BONES ARE PUT BACK
TOGETHER LIKE A GRIM JIGSAW
PUZZLE.
Dr. Priya Banerjee
Assistant Medical Examiner
On one end of the cart would be
the
head the jaw, any neck bones
vertibral column, I try to put
them in
order as if they were in place
in the
individual. (5548)
HUMAN REMAINS MUST ALSO
BE SEPARATED FROM ANIMAL
BONES...
THIS WAS BROUGHT TO THE
RHODE ISLAND MEDICAL
EXAMINER'S OFFICE AND IT
TURNED OUT TO BE FROM A
DEER.
WHEN IT'S DEEMED TO BE
FROM A PERSON, THE
EVIDENCE IS X-RAYED.
Dr. Priya Banerjee
Assistant Medical Examiner
(5640) we look at every bone to
see
if there are any marks, details
or
fractures, anything that I can
help
tell what happened to them.
white: help tell the story. 648)
help tell the story (5648)
A BIG PART OF THAT STORY, OF
COURSE, IS FIGURING OUT WHO
THE PERSON IS
COMING UP NEW AT 6: WHAT
TOOLS INVESTIGATORS HAVE
TO IDENTIFY
TO IDENTIFY HUMAN REMAINS
WHEN ALL THEY HAVE ARE
BONES.
AND D-N-A TESTING, ISN'T
ALWAYS THE ANSWER.
WITH THE TARGET 12
INVESTIGATORS TIM WHITE
(MM)
THE TARGET 12
INVESTIGATORS TAKE YOU
INSIDE THE MAFIA:
ANATOMY OF A MOB DIG.
(HE)
WE ARE GETTING A
BEHIND THE SCENES
LOOK AT HOW
INVESTIGATORS TACKLE
MURDER INVESTIGATIONS
WHERE THEIR ONLY
EVIDENCE...
IS SKELETAL REMAINS.
(MM)
NEW AT SIX...
WITH FEW CLUES
UNEARTHED FROM THE
SOIL...
WE REVEAL WHAT TOOLS
INVESTIGATORS HAVE TO
IDENTIFY A VICTIM ----WHO
HAS BEEN BURIED FOR
DECADES.
(HE)
TARGET 12 INVESTIGATOR
TIM WHITE GOT ACCESS
TO THE STATE MEDICAL
EXAMINER'S OFFICE AND
IS HERE NOW WITH THE
DETAILS.
RIGHT AWAY YOU WOULD THINK
THAT D-N-A IS THE FAIL-PROOF
FIRST STOP FOR
INVESTIGATORS TO I-D A BODY.
BUT IT'S NOT...
IN FACT, D-N-A COMES WITH A
HIGH HURDLE AND IS OFTEN,
A LAST RESORT.
AFTER BEING BURIED 13 FEET
UNDERGROUND BEHIND THIS
EAST PROVIDENCE APARTMENT
COMPLEX...
THE BODY OF JOSEPH "JOEY
ONIONS" SCANLON - THE VICTIM
OF A 1978 GANGLAND SLAYING -
WAS FINALLY DISCOVERED.
Corporal Scot Baruti
Rhode Island State Police
White: (1958) What was the
condition of the remains. Can
you
describe what you found in the
hole?
(1004) Just, bones, a lot of
bones.
IT WAS 2008,
AND AFTER THE REMAINS WERE
UNEARTHED,
STATE POLICE INVESTIGATORS
DROVE TO CONNECTICUT AND
OBTAINED A DNA SAMPLE FROM
SCANLON'S DAUGHTER AND
SISTER TO CONFIRM THE
IDENTITY.
THAT'S THE CATCH WITH DNA:
Dr. Priya Banerjee
Assistant Medical Examiner
(0410) you have to know who the
person is and have a relative to
compare
DR. PRIYA BANERJEE IS ANCAL EXAMINER.
ASSISTANT MEDICAL EXAMINER.
SHE SAYS IT'S NOT ALWAYS
CLEAR WHO HAS BEEN
DISCOVERED.
SO THE BEST THING THEY CAN
FIND WHEN SIFTING THROUGH
SOIL OR EXAMINING SKELETAL
REMAINS,
IS A MEDICAL ARTIFACT.
Dr. Priya Banerjee
Assistant Medical Examiner
(0432) lets say they have an
implant, a hip implant a knee
implant, a pin, a plate with a
number
on it, all of these are
traceable,
every medical hardware has a
unique identifiable features,
serial
numbers (0444)
THOSE NUMBERS ARE
TRACEABLE BACK TO THE
MANUFACTURER AND
ULTIMATELY THE SURGEON
THAT PERFORMED THE
OPERATION.
Dr. Priya Banerjee
Assistant Medical Examiner
White: so a medical artifact is
a
huge break,
a huge break, yes (0459)
BANERJEE SAYS THEY ALSO
USE DENTAL WORK AS A
POSSIBLE INDICATOR.
Dr. Priya Banerjee
Assistant Medical Examiner
(0955) I can xray the skeletal
remains and I have the xrays
from
the teeh and I can just look at
those.
we do work with a forensic
detnist
as well if a higher level of
expertise
is needed.
IN THE SCANLON CASE...
INVESTIGATORS LIKE STATE
POLICE CORPORAL SCOT
BARUTI...
Corporal Scot Baruti
Rhode Island State Police
(0657) first we brought a dog
in, a
k9 a cadaver dog
WERE PRETTY CONFIDENT
THEY KNEW WHO THEY HAD
FOUND.
BUT BECAUSE THEY NEEDED
TO USE DNA...
IT TOOK 8 MONTHS AFTER THE
REMAINS WERE DUG UP,
TO OFFICIALY END A
DECADES-OLD RHODE ISLAND
MYSTERY.
Corporal Scot Baruti
Rhode Island State Police
(0949) It was good. your heart
beats
a little faster and you know
you're
going to put closure on the
case.
WHEN BONES ARE FOUND,
STAFF AT THE OFFICE OF THE
MEDICAL EXAMINERS WORKS
METICULOUSLY THROUGH
THEIR CHECKLIST OF
TECHNIQUES UNTIL THEY NAIL
DOWN THE VICTIM'S NAME.
Dr. Priya Banerjee
Assistant Medical Examiner
(1132) The body is always
evidence,
no unidentified remains ever
leave
this office. Unidentified (1137)
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(1515) Everyone has a story and
everyone is someone's loved one
(1519) These people are
essentially
my patients if you will. These
are the
people I work for.
WE'RE TOLD THE METHOD
USED TO EXTRACT DNA FROM
BONES IS SPECIALIZED..
AND RHODE ISLAND DNA LABS
DON'T HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
SO THEY HAVE TO SHIP OUT
THE SAMPLE TO ONE OF TWO
LABS IN THE COUNTRY THAT
CAN TEST FOR A MATCH.
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