Product Description: Over the past thirty years, forensic anthropologist Mary H. Manhein has helped authorities to identify hundreds of deceased persons throughout Louisiana and beyond. In Bone Remains, she offers details of twenty riveting cases from her files -- many of them involving facial reconstructions where only bones offered clues to an individual's story...read more

A former pathologist known as 'the bone lady' shares her exciting tale of life in the trenches, literally, of crime investigation, discussing the gritty, dirt-smudged details of her high-profile cases--from Civil War skeletons to modern political intrigue. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this memoir, Mary Manheim, a forensic anthropologist and bioarchaeologist known as the bone lady to her colleagues, recollects dozens of stories. In one story, Manhein and the state police eventually unearth a black plastic bag buried in the banks of the Mississippi River containing the body of a man who has been missing for five years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)