{"id":8395,"date":"2012-02-24T11:01:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T16:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=8395"},"modified":"2012-02-24T11:01:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T16:01:57","slug":"forensics-prof-uses-skills-to-bring-closure-to-migrant-families-missing-loved-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2012\/02\/forensics-prof-uses-skills-to-bring-closure-to-migrant-families-missing-loved-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Forensics prof uses skills to bring closure to migrant families missing loved ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"loribaker-feb12\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/loribaker-feb12.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Lori Baker\" width=\"291\" height=\"193\" \/>The remains of a 12-year-old boy found along the Texas border &#8212; almost certainly a migrant from Mexico &#8212; strike Baylor professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/afsa\/index.php?id=80297\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Lori Baker<\/a>, BA &#8217;93, MA &#8217;94, hard. His clothes and belongings held no identification, and even a DNA test found no match.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s for individuals such as this that Baker, an associate professor of anthropology in Baylor&#8217;s College of Arts and Sciences, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/alumni\/magazine\/0205\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=7738\" target=\"_blank\">has established a database<\/a> that she hopes can connect unidentified bodies with their loved ones &#8212; to provide families and friends with some closure, &#8220;a place to pray,&#8221; as she puts it.<\/p>\n<p>KRGV Channel 5 in south Texas talked to Baker in depth about her efforts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krgv.com\/news\/the-journey-the-boy-in-the-box\/\" target=\"_blank\">highlighting her work in this lengthy video report<\/a>. The work is not pleasant &#8212; as Baker says, &#8220;forensic scientists are never called in because something good happened&#8221; &#8212; but it is important. After all, everyone is someone&#8217;s friend, brother, sister or child.<\/p>\n<p>Sic\u00a0\u2019em, Dr. Baker!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remains of a 12-year-old boy found along the Texas border &#8212; almost certainly a migrant from Mexico &#8212; strike Baylor professor Dr. Lori Baker, BA &#8217;93, MA &#8217;94, hard. His clothes and belongings held no identification, and even a DNA test found no match. It&#8217;s for individuals such as this that Baker, an associate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,12,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-research","category-service","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}