Pictured: Forensics Anthropologist Dr. Robert Mann, adjunct anatomy professor at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaiʻi, leads an award-winning summer certificate class on forensics at JABSOM in July 2018. Photo by Deborah Manog Dimaya.
Forensic Anthropologist Dr. Robert Mann, who helps lead an award-winning course on forensics during the summer at the University of Hawaiʻi, remembers September 11, 2001 with an intensity that left lasting images in his mind and a depth of feeling in his heart.
Dr. Mann, adjunct faculty with the UH John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), worked to identify those killed in the jetliner attack on the U.S. Pentagon on September 11th.
In his career, Dr. Mann also identified serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s first victim. He identified remains of U.S. soldiers killed in the Vietnam War, and remains of people who died in the 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean. He told reporter Jim Mendoza of Hawaiʻi News Now that “the Pentagon terror attack was different.” Mann said, “You can’t experience this, you can’t do it without somehow being affected by it.” Reporter Mendoza concluded that Dr. Mann was a caring person who worked to identify the Pentagon dead with a scientist’s expertise, but also with a compassionate heart.
Here is the Hawaiʻi News Now story:
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