Forensic scientists hope to identify men on USS Monitor
(NEWSER) - Talk about a cold case: Forensic scientists have reconstructed the faces of two sailors who drowned in the USS Monitor 150 years ago in the hope someone will identify them, the AP reports. Experts at Louisiana State University built the faces around skulls of two skeletal remains recovered from the turret, after DNA testing failed to match them with descendants of the Monitor's crew or their families. "The faces are really the last opportunity we have, unless somebody pops up out of nowhere and says, `Hey, I am a descendant,'" says the head of the project. More»
