SEOS presents "All That Remains: The Medicolegal Investigation of Death" by Dr. Murray Marks

Date: 10/16/2025

Time: 6:00 - 9:00pm

Location: Morristown Landing

Speaker: Murray Marks, PhD, D-ABFA, F-AAFS DIRECTOR FOR FORENSIC EDUCATION, BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES, & REASEARCH

Murray K. Marks, PhD, D-ABFA, F-AAFS Professor and Director of the Institute of Human Identification at Lincoln Memorial University - College of Dental Medicine. Dr. Marks is also a member of the Forensic Anthropologist at the East Tennessee Regional Forensic Center and Hamilton County (Chattanooga) Medical Examiner’s Office. Dr. Marks is an adjunct and teaches appointments in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Boston University and in the Department of Human Anatomy at the University of Western Australia. Dr. Marks served as Vice President of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology with memberships in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, American Association of Biological Anthropologists, National Association of Medical Examiners, American Society of Forensic Odontology, and Dental Anthropology Association. Dr. Marks' academic and practical interests include skeletal/dental biology and histology and human identification. His research interests include fracture callus histology in child abuse, sternal rib ageing, fetal forensic dental development, and osteology.

Course description:

What is the medicolegal significance of teeth?

It aids in identifying the manner of crime based on the site of the mark. Dental impression can be created to represent the full structure of teeth helping the forensic odontologist to match the teeth of the suspect with the bite mark. 

Medicolegal Investigation of Death is held to determine: Who died? Where they died? When they died? Why the died? And how they died? 

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this lecture, the attendee will be able to:

• Identify bite marks and how they can help link a suspect to a crime.
• Decipher patient records and compare to deceased human remains for identification.
• Recognize how the dental profession continues to aid in forensic and crime investigations across the world. 

The attendee will receive 3 CEU's following this program.