Experts To Help ID Final Body From Imperial Ave.
POSTED: 4:14 pm EST November 26,
2009
CLEVELAND -- Authorities in Cleveland have asked a leading anthropologist and a forensic artist to help identify the remains of an 11th woman found inside the home of a suspected serial killer.Ten others have been identified. The suspect, 50-year-old Anthony Sowell, is in jail on a $6 million bond.For the final ID, anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University will examine how the bones are connected on the victim's skull. And Linda Spurlock, a forensic reconstruction expert at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, will develop a sketch of the woman's face.Lovejoy and Spurlock were part of a scientific team that helped study the skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4 million-year-old human ancestor. Research papers on the hominid were published in October.
Previous Stories:
- November 19, 2009: Funerals For Imperial Ave. Victims To Be Held This Weekend
- November 18, 2009: Investigators Search Imperial Avenue Home In Hazmat Suits
- November 18, 2009: Police Begin New Search On Imperial Ave.
- November 17, 2009: Coroner Still Trying To Identify 11th Imperial Ave. Victim
- November 16, 2009: Funerals To Be Held For 2 More Imperial Ave. Victims Tuesday
- November 16, 2009: Hot Line Set Up For Those Who Fled Sowell's Home
- November 15, 2009: FBI Search Back Yard, Under Porch At Sowell Home
- November 13, 2009: Command Center Set Up Prior To New Search On Imperial Avenue
- November 13, 2009: Bond Set At $1M For Accused Serial Killer In Connection With Rape Charge
- November 13, 2009: Funeral Services Set For Victims Found In Imperial Avenue Home
- November 13, 2009: Moms March In Memory Of 11 Women Killed
- November 12, 2009: 10th Imperial Avenue Victim Identified
- November 11, 2009: FBI To Use Thermal Imaging To Search For Remains On Imperial Avenue
- November 9, 2009: 8th, 9th Imperial Avenue Victims Identified
- November 9, 2009: Cadaver Dogs Search Vacant Home, School
- November 9, 2009: 3 More Imperial Avenue Victims Identified
- November 5, 2009: Coroner Provides Tips On What To Look For In Walls Of Sowells' Home
- November 4, 2009: Chief: 4 More Bodies, Skull Found At Home
- November 2, 2009: Sowell's Brother Says Stepmother Safe In Nursing Home
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