Storygram: Sarah Wild’s “Bones Specialists Try to Prise Secrets from the Veld Bodies”
In an award-winning Mail & Guardian story about the challenges of identifying “veld bodies,” or anonymous bodies found in the open grasslands of South Africa, freelance journalist Sarah Wild details the scientific limitations, logistical constraints, human errors, and lack of support that plague a broken network of law enforcement, mortuaries, and government identification systems. Here, Scientific American senior editor for features Jen Schwartz analyzes what makes the story succeed.
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