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Modern scientific detectives reconstruct faces from skulls
The article explains how Dr. Kockel of Vienna and others use skull analysis to recreate facial features and identify victims. It covers bone by bone inference, muscle thickness studies, and casts tested with Bach to prove face restoration, plus methods for degraded remains, weapon clues from skull marks, and the dictagraph’s growing role in crime detection.
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Sherlock Holmes
Dr. Kockel
Vienna
His
Berlin
Kollmann
Basle
Switzerland
Cuvier
Buffon
Haeckel
Cope
Marah
Profetsor
Hie
Hin
Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach
Gross
Kockel
Smonumcarion 2
William J. Burns
France
Germany
America
Alfonso Moeller