State v. Tracey Ann Frame

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• Tarrant County Medical Examiners 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
• rmetcalf_at_tarrantcounty.com, rmetcalf_at_leo.gov

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State v. Tracey Ann Frame

• As Seen on Television!

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• On 04/22/2002, autopsy performed at T.C.M.E. on
  unidentified remains
• Remains were adult Caucasian male, burned badly
• Decedent had been shot once through heart
• Decedent had been wrapped in a blanket and tarp,
  then set afire

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• What they said on CBSs 48 Hours
• The medical examiner would determine that the
  victim was a man in his 40s, killed by a single
  gunshot wound to the heart, but his identity was
  a mystery.
• Dental records later confirmed the bodys
  identity as 40-year-old David Nixon . . .

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48 Hours Secrets Lies on Grapevine Lake
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• What they didnt say
• It took three weeks of hard work by the T.C.M.E.
  Investigators to get the remains identified.

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• Rodney Crow, D.D.S., D.A.B.F.O., former Chief
  Forensic Odontologist, T.C.M.E., performed dental
  examination on remains and the first comparison
  with known dental records (treating dentist was
  Dr. David Nix) concluding decedent was indeed
  David Nixon.
• Dr. Crow retired before Tracy Ann Frames trial,
  however, and was not available to testify.

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• Mr. Sean Colston, Tarrant County Asst. D.A.,
  requested a new comparison of dental records.

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• N.C.I.C. has capability to store a missing
  persons or an unidentified bodys 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 searchthe F.B.I. is
  currently studying implementation of a dental
  image repository.
• 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 databaseOdontosearchth
  at 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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• Bonus trivia question worth absolutely nothing
  whatsoevercan you guess what this object is in
  the radiograph?

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• Please drive carefully!