1. L/O: Finger Printing & Identification Utilise dental, other records, and other pieces of evidence to identify individuals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODyts0L-qlE 17 July 1918 The Romanovs were executed without trial in a basement of the governors mansion where they were being held. Diamonds and other previous jewels sewn into the clothing and pillows of some of the women provided protection against the bullets fired – subsequently requiring multiple shots to kill them. Acid treatment and burial in a remote and forgotten location meant that rumours circulated that some had lived – In 1991 their grave was discovered, the skeleton count came up two people short. Execution of the Romanovs

2. Identifying The Romanovs Your task is to conclude who was missing from the grave.

3. In 1991 Russian genetic testing of the discovered remains allowed for the identification, by using samples from the nearest living relatives (Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, being one). In 2007 a second grave was discovered a ‘short’ way from the original, containing two skeletons, tests were carried out and results published in association with Russian and American labs that resulted in the identification of the two as Alexi and ‘a sister’. The paper published: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19277206 Conclusion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b2catDZsq8 Below is a news link from the Pentagon Channel News (the American institutions were military) outlining what happened and the conclusions drawn.