Exhibition Contents: Lines of Evidence:
	Material Evidence
	Fingerprinting
	Forensic Dentistry
	Forensic Anthropology
	Forensic Pathology
	DNA
Case Studies
	Paul Revere
	Michael J. Blassie
	Charles Scharf
	Contributors

Before the Civil War, the United States
had no national policy or program
prepared to deal with the identification
of war dead. Many service members remained unidentified, buried in nameless graves across the nation’s landscape. This experience gave rise to the military’s current responsibility to identify those who died while in service to this country.

RESOLVED highlights the underlying forensic sciences that have evolved in fulfilling this nation’s commitment to the identification and commemoration of the U.S. service member.

This exhibition presents the six lines of evidence critical to the positive identification of a deceased service member. The sequence -- starting with Material Evidence, then Fingerprinting, Dentistry, Anthropology, Pathology, and DNA – reflect the real-world process that a service member’s remains follow at the mortuary, leading to a scientific
identification.