ABSTRACT
Following a mass disaster in the U.K. that resulted in the need to identify over 30 bodies, one individual’s identity remained unknown, despite the person’s having undergone very distinctive surgery. The presence of natural disease processes had led to the conclusion that the body was between 40 and 60 years of age. Search parameters were therefore set but failed to identify the victim. A decade later, a review of the findings led to the identification of the victim, who was in his 70s. This illustrates the difficulties of confirming specific age ranges from soft tissue pathology and the importance of not setting search identification parameters too narrowly.
