Classification des méthodes utilisées en identification comparative en médecine légale illustrée par la casuistique

The identification of bodies is one of the main tasks of the forensic scientists. This problem resorts to multiple techniques of different disciplines requiring a narrow collaboration between the various actors. Through some cases stemming from our experience, we tried to brush a classification of the methods used in comparative identification. This frame underlines the various supports used for the identification: soft tissues, hard tissues and prostheses, and, molecules as well as levels of reliabilities of these techniques.