John A. Williams - Disaster Victim Identification in the 21st Century: A US Perspective

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John A Williams

Western Carolina University Cullowhee, US

Victor W Weedn

George Washington University Washington, US

This edition first published 2022
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Williams, John A. (Physical anthropologist), editor. | Weedn, VictorWalter, editor. | John Wiley & Sons, publisher.
Title: Disaster victim identification in the 21st century : a US perspective / edited by John A Williams, Victor W Weedn.
Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2022. | Series: Forensic science in focus | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021061393 (print) | LCCN 2021061394 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119652786 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119652809 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119652793 (epub) | ISBN 9781119652823 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Disaster victims--Identification. | Dead--Identification.
Classification: LCC RA1055 .D53 2022 (print) | LCC RA1055 (ebook) | DDC 363.34/8--dc23/eng/20220301
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021061393
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Victor W. Weedn, MD, JD, is a forensic pathologist and attorney, and the Chief Medical Examiner for the State of Maryland. He has worked as a medical examiner, crime laboratory director, research scientist, and professor of forensic science and of law. He founded the militarys DNA identification program and oversaw the Armed Forces Identification Laboratory (AFDIL), which identified the remains of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, the Branch Davidian conflagration victims in Waco, and later the Michael Blassie, the Vietnam unknown of the Tomb of the Unknowns. He pioneered STR and mtDNA analysis and CE and DNA microchip technologies. He was on the prosecution witness list for the OJ Simpson trial. He holds a patent on latent fingerprint technology. He led the establishment of the NAME inspection and accreditation program. He was the 20152016 AAFS President and established the AAFS Academy Standards Board. He received the Helpern Award from the Path/Bio Section of the AAFS in 2017. He was detailed to the DOJ as the Senior Forensic Advisor to Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, 20162017. He testified to the US Congress in 2018. He currently serves on the NAME Board of Directors, the AAFS ASB Disaster Victim Identification Consensus Body, and the NIST OSAC Medicolegal Death Investigation Subcommittee.