Bailey James A, Brogdon G B, Nichols Brandon
Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC, 28401.
J Forensic Sci. 2014 Jan;59(1):260-3. doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.12296. Epub 2013 Oct 22.
A skeleton discovered in Grand Forks, North Dakota was purported to belong to Clelland "Clell" Miller, a James-Younger gang member, who was killed during the Northfield Bank robbery on September 7, 1876. A 3-D image from a computer tomography (CT) scan of the skull was obtained, and a craniofacial superimposition was conducted to determine if the skull could belong to Miller. The superimposition method used in this case was to overlay the CT image of the skull onto Miller's postmortem photograph. In addition to the craniofacial superimposition, the images were juxtaposed to compare similarities or differences in facial morphology between the skull and photograph. Superimposition methods can be used to exclude identifications; however, they should not be used as a conclusive method for identification. In this case, there were sufficient similarities between the skull and Miller's photograph; therefore, the skull could not be eliminated as possibly being that of Miller.
在北达科他州大福克斯发现的一具骷髅据称属于克莱兰德·“克莱尔”·米勒，他是詹姆斯-杨格团伙的成员，于1876年9月7日在诺斯菲尔德银行抢劫案中被杀。获取了该头骨计算机断层扫描（CT）的三维图像，并进行了颅面叠加以确定该头骨是否可能属于米勒。本案中使用的叠加方法是将头骨的CT图像覆盖在米勒的死后照片上。除了颅面叠加外，还将这些图像并列以比较头骨和照片之间面部形态的异同。叠加方法可用于排除身份认定；然而，它们不应被用作身份认定的决定性方法。在本案中，头骨与米勒照片之间有足够的相似之处；因此，不能排除该头骨可能是米勒的。
