Halloween is over but that hasn't stopped detectives using cutting-edge tech to try and find out the identity of a long-dead 'vampire'. The man was found buried with his arms in an X shape across his chest – a common burial practice for 'blood-suckers'.
Detectives have turned to cutting-edge technology to try and discover the identity of a long-dead vampire.
Now, cutting-edge laboratory and bioinformatics techniques have been used to reveal what he looked like and confirm who he was.The recent International Symposium on Human Identification conference in Washington, D.C., saw Parabon NanoLabs and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory unveil their results.
‘It is speculated that he was later disinterred and reburied because his limbs had been placed atop his chest in an X in a skull-and-crossbones configuration – a burial practice used to prevent purported vampires from rising from the grave to feed upon the living.’ A whole-genome targeting approach, also used in Parabon’s law enforcement casework for highly degraded samples, was determined to be the most cost effective method of identification.
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