There does seem to be a difference in mood and character between the Second, Fourth, Sixth and Eighth Symphonies as opposed to the Third, Fifth, Seventh and Ninth, but it would probably take a team of musicologists and forensic psychiatrists to sort it all out.
Amy Zelson Mundorff, a forensic anthropologist who scrutinized tens of thousands of those body parts, is still sorting through chunks and shards of bone and tissue, trying to link them to lost lives and help families desperate for information.
But now forensic scientists have begun testing techniques they hope will give officers, interrogators and others a kind of honesty screen, an improved method of sorting doctored stories from truthful ones.
With attention to detail, good connections (in all senses) and the application of digital forensics all sorts of discrete data dots can be linked — enabling official narratives to be interrogated and unpicked with technology-fuelled speed.
What did happen, in the end, was something of a straightforward murder trial, stripped of the larger, inflammatory political aspects, leaving it up to 12 jurors to sort through a familiar assortment of evidence: witness testimony and forensic findings.
It's a sort of forensic reductio ad absurdum, a cinematic experiment in social science.
"There is no opportunity for this sort of forensic examination in the knock-about soapbox environment of Question Time.
This debate turned out to be a sort of forensic Commando raid, led by Lord Lovat, who stormed the article as thought it were a Dieppe beach.
When he talks about reading the Miranda rights to the corpse, is he picturing an exhumation by future forensic archaeologists of the sort who were obsessed with supposed arsenic in Napoleon's hair?
Answering even basic questions about the passenger pigeon requires a sort of forensic ornithology, which gives "Feathered River Across the Sky" an unexpected poignancy at the very points where it is most nature-nerdy.
