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4. Bringing up the bodies: the search for the lost Pentridge burial ground
Finding the missing bodies
5. Anthropology: identifying the skeleton by its injuries
Estimating the numbers of individuals buried
Similar injuries to Ned Kelly’s
6. Analysis of the skull using odontology and craniofacial superimposition
The skull: first impressions
Two matches! Kelly and Deeming
7. The forensic pathology
Mixing scientific and historical research
Limited post mortem did occur
8. Forensic 3D facial reconstruction
Repair and duplication of the skull
Mounting the replica skull on a turntable
Positioning of soft tissue depth markers and placement of eyes in the orbits
Layer by layer of muscle build-up
Fleshing out (outer skin)
Conducting the DNA analysis
Searching for a maternal descendant
Trying to get nuclear DNA samples
Making sense of the DNA data
10. Looking after Ned in the mortuary
Buying a safe for the skull
11. Judicial hanging: the injuries and effects
Execution needing to be repeated
Modern examinations of hanging
The execution of Ned Kelly
13. Who were the other prisoners executed and buried at the Melbourne Gaol?
Frances Knorr: the ‘baby farmer’
Multicultural profile of executed prisoners
14: Reading Ned’s head: colonial phrenology, popular science and entertainment
Why were death masks made?
The grotesque and extraordinary
Was the phrenology of Ned Kelly taken seriously?
15. The science of the Kelly gang’s armour: distilling fact from fiction
How was the armour tested?
Gamma-X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy
Transmission electron microscopy
How mild steel is produced
16. The guns: firearms of the Kelly gang and police
17. Ned’s injuries and their treatment: then and now
Wound treatment at the time
Gunshot wound management before and around 1880
Current treatment of Edward Kelly’s injuries
Specific management of injuries sustained by Edward Kelly
18. Sifting through the past: the archaeological dig at Glenrowan
Developing a research design for the dig
Results: historical research
Observations of excavation
19. The police perspective
Seeing the police as individuals
Isolation, fatigue and general overwork
Irish-born police versus native sons
The Thomas McIntyre story
20. The police perspective
How might things be different today?
21. Edward Kelly: the last legal rites
Events at Stringybark Creek
McIntyre’s varying accounts
Kelly’s subsequent claims
Forensic pathology evidence
22. Analysing the handwriting
The process of forensic examination of handwriting
23. Managing the news: a personal perspective
24. The end of a 70-year journey?
What could the skeleton tell us?
Finding the incredible truth of the injuries
25. So who has Ned’s head?
26. Solving the mystery of the skull
Appendix 1: DNA processes
Appendix 2: Metal crystallography
Ned Kelly
：Under the Microscope
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