[McNeese Students] Bone Lady Lecture

[students at list.mcneese.edu]

Mary Manhein, called the Bone Lady by law enforcement personnel, will
present a free lecture at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in Baker Auditorium.

Manhein is a deputy coroner for East Baton Rouge Parish and an expert
witness in forensic anthropology. She has handled more than 700 forensic
cases, including retrieval and identification of victims of industrial
explosions and fires.

Her presentation, "Twenty Years of Forensic Anthropology in the Deep South:
Truth Is Surely Stranger than Fiction," is sponsored by the McNeese Society
of Forensic Sciences.

Manhein is director of the Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement
Services (FACES) Laboratory at Louisiana State University,

As an expert on the human skeleton, Manhein assists law enforcement by
providing profiles of remains that narrow the identification process when
the traditional means used by medical examiners or coroners to conduct
autopsies are no longer applicable. She assesses age, sex, race, height,
signs of trauma and time since death, and creates clay facial
reconstructions.

Manhein has authored the book, "The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic
Anthropologist, " which is a collection of stories about the cases she has
worked. In her book, she shares, with the compassion and humor of a born
storyteller, many fascinating cases that include the science underlying her
analyses as well as the human stories behind the remains.