The College at Buffalo’s dental faculty gained nationwide consideration with its forensic lab’s work featured on Netflix’s “Unsolved Mysteries,” which started airing its newest sequence on July 31.
A function story written by the college’s employees and printed on August 2 highlights Dr. Mary Bush, DDS, forensic dentist and affiliate professor of restorative dentistry, who took middle stage within the story.
The case started in 2015 when the Pennsylvania State Police delivered a cooler to the forensic lab on the College at Buffalo Faculty of Dental Medication. The cooler contained an unidentified severed head found by an adolescent within the woods close to Economic system, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. The lab was tasked with figuring out whether or not the top belonged to a torso present in a mausoleum in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
The investigation was sophisticated by the truth that police solely knew the top belonged to an older girl interred in 1952.
“After we first noticed the X-rays, I stated, ‘There’s no approach that is 1952 dentistry,’” stated Bush. “There have been a number of resin composites current, and that technology didn’t exist within the Nineteen Fifties. Older college members confirmed that it was no sooner than the mid-Eighties.”
Bush was interviewed in Might 2023 by Netflix’s iconic thriller documentary present to share her insights for Episode 3, titled “The Severed Head.”
For extra particulars, learn the complete function written by Laurie Kaiser, Information Content material Director on the Faculty of Dental Medication, right here.
