Scars of the Earth
Discover Forensic anthropologist Amy Mundorff wants to make the search for the missing safer and more successful. One morning in July 2005, Amy Mundorff rode into the Bosnian countryside, tagging along with a team from the International Commission on Missing Persons. The roads wound past forests, farmland and villages. The group stopped near a filed in a hilly area on the outskirts of a village to meet an informant. From the gestures and the translator’s comments, Mundorff understood that the ground beneath the field might hold bodies. The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina had ended 10 years earlier, but thousands of people remained … Read more…