No Bone Unturned: Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America's Most Notorious Crimes and Disasters
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A curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Doug Owsley painstakingly rebuilds skeletons, helping to identify them and determine their cause of death. He has worked on several notorious cases -- from mass graves uncovered in Croatia to the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon -- and has examined historic skeletons tens of thousands of years old. But the discovery of Kennewick Man, a 9,600-year-old human skeleton found along the banks of Washington's Columbia River, was a find that would turn Owsley's life upside down. Days before Owsley was scheduled to study the skeleton, the government seized it to bury Kennewick Man's bones on the land of the Native American tribes who claimed him. Along with other leading scientists, Owsley sued the U.S. government over custody. Concerned that knowledge about our past and our history would be lost forever if the bones were reburied, Owsley fought a legal and political battle for six years, putting everything at risk, jeopardizing his career and his reputation. Chicago Tribune“Compelling… [Owsley]…risked his job and his reputation in the name of science.”
Author's NoteixPrologue11High-Stakes Playground172Opening Coffins273Bone Fragments314Going to Guatemala355Outsmarting the Devil416Into the Crypt537Building People618Remains of the Day719The Probe7510Evil is Real8111Unwrapping a Mummy8312Somebody Else is Here9113Humans Remain9514Airfare for a Skeleton10315Destination Unknown10916Rush to Repatriate11517We Know How Time Began12118The Client12919Senior Girl13520Eight Men Out14521About-Face14922Where Did You Get These Africans?15523Turning the Lights on15924Stand and Fight16925Intent17526Science Evolves18127Virtual Reality18928The Cover-Up19729Lie Detector20130Skin Thickness20531Objection21132One Look21733Going Deep22734Spin Cycle23135Show Time23936White House Involvement25537What You See Here Stays Here26338In Demand26939The Decision275Source Notes283Acknowledgments291Index295
