Transcript State v. Tracey Ann Frame

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Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s District
Dr Nizam Peerwani, Chief Medical Examiner
Roger D Metcalf DDS
Human ID Lab
200 Feliks Gwozdz Place
Fort Worth, Texas 76104-4919
817-920-5700 ext 160
[email protected], [email protected]
Databases Used by
Forensic
Odontologists at
T.C.M.E.
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N.C.I.C. dental profile
J.P.A.C. Odontosearch (Joint POW/MIA
Accounting Command—formerly C.I.L.HI.)
Lexis/Nexis law enforcement package
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N.C.I.C. has capability to store a missing
person’s or an unidentified body’s dental profile.
Unfortunately, up until a couple of years ago,
there was a “bug” in the software, and dental
profiles were not being searched automatically.
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There is no “national dental database” that
forensic odontologists can search—the F.B.I. is
currently studying implementation of a dental
image repository that would be an extension
of N.C.I.C.
The hope is someday we will have a
searchable dental database similar to A.F.I.S.
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The U.S. Army maintains a database—
Odontosearch—that helps odontologists
determine the uniqueness of a particular
arrangement of fillings a person may have.
Central Identification
Laboratory at JPAC
(formerly C.I.L.HI.)
http://www.jpac.pacom.mil/CIL/OdontoUse.htm
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The odontologist enters the dental profile
of the subject into the Odontosearch
program, and the program searches
various databases to determine how often
that particular profile occurs in a particular
population
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Useful for dental id cases, but not helpful
for bitemark cases—unfortunately, dental
id cases are not often litigated, while
bitemark cases are often highly
contentious
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Lexis/Nexis is a huge database company
that maintains all sorts of databases used
primarily by the legal profession
They maintain public record information
on individuals from “civilian databases”
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The Lexis/Nexis law enforcement package
gives us access to SSNs, DLs, various
other licenses, VINs, limited criminal
history information, and, most importantly,
potential relatives and associates—and
the capability to do reverse lookup with
only limited information about the subject
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Disclosure—we have no financial or other
connection to Lexis except as a customer
There are several other similar, competing
products—ChoicePoint, Acxiom, et al, and
I believe Westlaw also has some of these
features, as well
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