Public Safety Academy cadets bone up on forensic sciences – Daily Republic

By Todd R. Hansen

It takes about two weeks for dermestids to clean the flesh and soft tissue away from the bones of a full skeleton.

That is if the beetles are kept warm, fed and healthy and, well, loved.

Colleen Milligan, a forensic anthropology professor at California State University, Chico, and co-director of the on-campus Human Identification Lab, shared case studies Monday from the lab’s work with about 120 cadets at the Public Safety Academy in Fairfield.

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