A Cemetery Named the Mediterranean Sea: Best Practice in Human Identification

Learning Overview: After attending this presentation, attendees will be able to evaluate the application of best practice when performing the identification of human remains recovered from the sea. There is a significant amount of scientific literature highlighting the importance of having a multidisciplinary approach for unidentified human remains by following Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) standards, yet they are not always applied. Impact on the Forensic Science Community: This presentation will impact the forensic science community by providing the scientific findings of an identification case in which postmortem and antemortem data are compared to determine whether they belong to the same person. Since 2014, the human identification process has become an