A skull, an unusual gold filling, no solid clues: inside the forensic files

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Each year, tens of thousands of people across Australia are reported missing and the remains of dozens of unidentified John and Jane Does find their way to coroners' offices.

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A human skull is found on a secluded beach in the state’s south-east. An unusual gold filling, one of only a few solid clues.

The small team – coroner John Olle, head of coronial inquiries at VIFM Jodie Leditschke, molecular biologist Dadna Hartman, senior forensic anthropologist Soren Blau and Detective Senior Sergeant Anthony Combridge – is the only team in Australia that meets this way.Detective Senior Sergeant Anthony Combridge from Victoria Police's missing persons squad.The remains of 27 unidentified people are stored within the coroner's office and the laboratories at VIFM.

While staff at VIFM deals with the science behind a new discovery, detectives deal with the clues and the families at the other end, desperately waiting for answers. Molecular biologist and head of DNA at VIFM Dadna Hartman said searches against the national criminal database and Victoria's missing persons database also proved fruitless."We’re hoping to upload DNA information and search [it] against public genealogy databases where families have uploaded their own DNA profiles for the purposes of family tree investigations."This is only just new [but] it’s been quite successful in the US.

At the Southbank lab, within the confines of VIFM, molecular biologists were attempting to retrieve DNA. Fifteen months had elapsed from the body being discovered to the scientists finding a match.

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