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Experts to help ID final body from Cleveland home

Associated Press - November 26, 2009 10:35 AM ET

CLEVELAND (AP) - Authorities in Cleveland have asked a leading anthropologist and a forensic artist to help identify the remains of an 11th woman found inside the home of a suspected serial killer.

Ten others have been identified. The suspect, 50-year-old Anthony Sowell, is in jail on a $6 million bond.

For the final ID, anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University will examine how the bones are connected on the victim's skull. And Linda Spurlock, a forensic reconstruction expert at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, will develop a sketch of the woman's face.

Lovejoy and Spurlock were part of a scientific team that helped study the skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4 million-year-old human ancestor. Research papers on the hominid were published in October.

Information from: The Plain Dealer, http://www.cleveland.com

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