Question 3

Question 3: 

From the story above so far, how many victims are there? Explain..

We presume that since there was "a whitish, round object resembling part of a human skull" which was excavated, and judging by what Dr Rudi has mentioned, "there is at least one male skeleton, perhaps a young child", we have come to an agreement that there is possibly only one victim in this scenario. Our presumption is that this victim is a young child, of age under 12, and has developed features of a male adult.

Also, "Few pieces of jaw-like structures bearing some teeth" have been found in the same vicinity as the skull. In our assumption, these jaw-like structures originated from the skull of the same victim. Hence, based on these two justifications, we have deduced that there is only one victim in the scenario for now. 

Unfortunately, due to to lack of information from the scenario, we have prepared a table which compares the differences between the skull of an adult and a child. This table will help us to identify whether the bones originated from the same person or not assuming that we have access to the artifacts. If the jaw-like pieces are put together and can be fixed to the skull, then it is likely that there is only one victim. However, in the event when the jaw-like pieces do not fit, then there can be more than one.

Adult	Child
Jaw is bigger	Jaw is smaller
Has bigger and denser skull	Has smaller and less dense skull
Has complete permanent dentition	Has primary or mixed dentition
Growth plate has completely calcified	Growth plate is made of cartilage
Absence of fontanel	Presence of fontanel in infants until 2 years old