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By: Horacio E. Solla, PhD The two most popular theories about the nationality of the famous tango singer, Carlos Gardel, are presented here. These are the Uruguayan and French theories. Both arguments are exposed according to documentation, witness testimonies, and Gardel's declarations to the media. A study and anthropological comparison of two children´s photographs are presented. According to Berthe Gardés, both photographs correspond to Gardel when he was a child. The photographic comparisons were made by modern, forensic anthropological analyses of faces, using digital techniques with Adobe Photoshop software. As a result of these comparisons, it can ascertain that, without any doubt, the two photographs analyzed are not of the same child. These conclusions support the Uruguayan theory about the nationality of Gardel. Medicolegal aspects of the case were also analyzed as well as several legal irregularities that had never been clarified concerning Gardel's last will. Forensic aspects about his death in a plane crash at the airport of Olaya Herrera of Medellín City, Colombia, were also analyzed. The fast and poor identification of Gardel's body, basically taken from personal objects, was not performed according to scientific techniques of identification.
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Although dental analysis is described in the forensic literature, the analysis was never distinguished because neither Gardel's radiographs nor his dental charts were shown. Therefore, several experts have serious doubts that the body buried in the Chacarita cemetery is that of the famous tango singer. All these irregularities are supported by the fact that the photographs analyzed are undoubtedly of two different children. Certainly one of them is of Gardel as a child, but the other one seems to be of the true son of Berthe Gardés, one Charles Romuald Gardés. These facts strengthen the Uruguayan theory about the nationality of Carlos Gardel as the illegitimate son of Colonel Carlos Escayola and María Lelia Oliva, born in Tacuarembó, Uruguay.
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As always we are looking for Horacio E. Solla, PhD, received a Bachelor's in Anthropology as well as a Master's in Human Sciences from the University of the Republic, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Uruguay. He also received his doctorate from the International Atlantic University and a degree of merit from the International Biographical Institute at Cambridge, England (2001). Dr. Solla has made many
postgraduate degree courses in forensic anthropology, the last one in 2003, dictated by Dr. Douglas H. Ubelaker of the Smithsonian Institution. He received a certificate of inclusion in 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century, First Edition, in honor of an outstanding contribution to the field of forensic anthropology in Uruguay (as a founder of forensic anthropology in that country). He has published three books and more than
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60 scientific papers. Dr. Solla is member of the Uruguayan Society of History of Medicine, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the American College of Forensic Examiners, and the Spanish College of Forensic Experts. He was Curator at the National Museum of Anthropology (1990-1992), Assistant of Physical Anthropology at the University of the Republic, faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Uruguay (19891995), and an anthropologist at the National Institute of Criminology (1992-1995). Presently, he has a full-time position as the forensic anthropologist at the Judicial Morgue of Montevideo City (Supreme Court of Justice), where he has solved more
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than 1,200 forensic anthropology cases and identified skeletal remains of more than 200 missing persons, in addition to teaching forensic anthropology at the Catholic University of Montevideo, Uruguay. He also has worked as an advisory forensic anthropologist in several important privates cases.
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Cyril Wecht has worked on some of the highest profile cases in American history, including JFK and Elvis Presley. This book doesn't cover those cases, but instead focuses on a handful of peculiar cases that Dr. Wecht has come across in his career. The first is a murder case where, Dr. Wecht believes, the victim was an active participant in his own death. I like the way the cases that follow are presented throughout the book. They are discussed based on information Dr. Wecht would have
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Rev. Dr. Chrys Parker, J.D. is a psychotherapist, pastoral counselor, clinical chaplain, author, lecturer, advanced military trainer and academic educator specializing in traumatic stress. She is also a licensed attorney, and a forensic consultant in civil and criminal cases. She is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, a Clinical Member of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, a Pastoral Care Specialist of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center (San Antonio). Rev. Dr. Parker is Co-Director of Trauma Care Concepts, LLC and the Home Coming Initiative, a veteran and military training program based in San Antonio Texas. She is co-author with Dr. Harry Croft, M.D. of the book "I Always Sit With My Back To The Wall: Managing Traumatic Stress and Combat PTSD Through the R-E-C-O-V-E-R Approach For Veterans and Families." Rev. Dr. Parker and her writings, including archived issues of "The Integrative Clinician" may be found on the Web at; www.mybacktothewall.com.
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