i D> qo ISABEL CELIS 17-0568 AUTOPSY REPORT PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA TUCSON POLICE DEPARTMENT MARCH 4, 201711-0568 Re: ISABEL CELIS Page 2 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS: I. Homicide by unspecified means remains found in a desert area CAUSE OF DEATH: Homicide by unspecified means MANNI OF DEATH: Homicide Digitally signed by Jennifer G. Chen, MD, Forensic Pathologist Date: 2017.04.12 11:55:12-07'00"17-0568 Re: ISABEL CELIS Page 3 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: A postmortem examination is performed on these unidentified remains at the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner on March 4, 2017, commencing at 08:30 hours. Assisting with the exdminition afe Pathology Assistants Louie Goad and Gabriel Costell. Present for the examination are Forensic Anthropologist Bruce Anderson, Ph.D. and Forensic Anthropology Fellow Jennifer Vollner, Ph.D. Attending the examination are Detectives Cheek, Wright, and Fox and Crime Scene Technician Christensen with the Tucson Police Department, Also attending the examination is Agent Taylor with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Documentary photographs are taken by Forensic Pathologist Jennifer G, Chen, M.D. and Crime Scene Technician Christensen, ‘The remains are subsequently identified as those of Isabel Celis via DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) comparison performed by Bode Cellmark Forensics Laboratory. PRESENTATION OF THE BOD ‘The remains are received within a white pouch with intact blue Pima seal numbered 0006791 'No personal effects accompany the remains, EXAMINATIO! a (On March 6, 2017, additional recovered remains qu Oa aD were examined, For details, please see separate Forensie Anthropology ReportFORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY REPORT PCOME ease #: 17-0568x Forensic Pathologist: Jennifer Chen, MD Agency: Tueson Police aa (TPD) On 3 March 20 | 7 a TI |< phoned the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner (PCOME) and spoke with one of us (BEA) regarding QED immediately following this phone call ‘The following morning, 4 March 2017 at approximately 0830 hours during the Scheduled autopsy at the PCOME and in the presence of Tucson Police Department (IPD) personnel, we examined GREED A ter this cursory examination, we then usive, as we Were unable to exclude the missing chil Sa 208 1D posal We also equated toss (on an additional and immediate seaten of the recovery location Later on this sare morning at approximately 1100 hours, we were met ai this recovery area by Detective Cheek from TPD and given 2 brief walk through of the scene, Detective Cheek pointed out Vc a TD y: orc discovered the previous day. After a brief meeting the TPD personnel split into two groups, with each of us joining @ different group, with the task of one group being t (SRN 20; the other group performing a hands and knees sear) quo. any non- human skeletal elements were found. That group then began « hands and knees search where the and worked their w) (@MBerd thus were placed in the custody of TPD personnel to be delivered to the PCOME. On 6 March 2017, immediately following eutopsy, we exemncdgdSSaNaateneseemasems (QTM: deemed them to represent the same immature individual. The purposes of our subsequent analyses were to construct a biological profil, to estimate the postmortem interval, and to grossly and radiographically insp- TM for any evidence of perimortem trauma, To17-0568 Page 2 under warm tap wat ly identification based on a DNA comparison, rensic Anthropology Report ‘continued sporadically until 4 April 2017. In an attempt at an Our ai removed oo (iSO 1 personnel for test MN eT = Ancestry = eS Dentition: Perimort ting at Bode Cellmark. Results of the Forensic Anthropology Examination One cu Bos Tr cee Tenn aaa aad Some degree of Native American, likely | A mixed dentition is present in the maxillac atthe time of death (please see Dental Chart), with six erupted teeth (#3, A, B, I, J, and #14) and ten more (#2, #4, #5, #6, #7, #10, #11, #12, #13, and #15) developing crowns radiographically visible within their crypts. Missing postmortem are both — ee The status of the is uncertain due to developmental alveolar resorption. All six erupted moles (aa) mE The wnerupied crowns of (ee =a ene No restorations to the extent tecth we present, aT, em i ag Sl TAR ARTA CR Scape RE Ra Tees eS ED aaForensic Anthropology Report 17-0568%, Page 3 General Deseription ‘These Cae AAEE remains are represented (please ¢ Skeletal Chart) by most of the the above-described maxillary dentition; 1c oa Ss emi: 1: (O°: s as and the unsidedd@agPund the unsided quamtamy ene Ex(c2sive @aimiimagiam is present (0 somagaammEclements, with qm aertm 2 : SMI 0 soe of the QuuANNNIN clemenis Posto ED is present to severe] (ammmmlements. Othe aa clements are less @RMgSIEBend appcer to have becn in theq_gamammmmegem ic! thus Se 82021: ga: «hibi! Qua fiom weathering Evidence (QAR is present, in the form (AAAS; GEL | (CETTE a Comparison Table Sex eee Age: ‘aie 6 years, 9 months on 20 April 2012 Ancestry Some degree of NA Hispanic Stature: =m 44 inches Dentition: Mixed dentition Mixed dentition Time of death: Last known alive on 20 April 2012 Antemortem Dental Records (On 4 March 2017 we examined antemortern dental recards for Isabel Mercedes CELIS (DOB: 27 July 2005). These records consisted of paper copies of four bitewing radiographs of the posterior deciduous dentition, and two pages af dental notes. All of these records apparently pertain to Isabel's dental treatment in 2010 and 2011 and were provided to the PCOME by TPD personnel who obtained them from the dental office (7A? 'ocotcd 0 Cama amass in Tucson, Arizona,Forensic Anthropology Report 17-0568x Page 4 Comparative Dental Analysis We performed q@igstamients] comparison at the PCOME on 4 March 2077 in an attempt at en identification. ‘The antemortem dental records deserited above for Jsabel Mercedes CELIS (DOB: 27 July 2005) were compared to the postmortem dental records- a dental chart and a set of DEXIS digital dental radiographs ofl made by us for the decedent designated by the PCOME as case 17-0568. Consistency in eruption status is present between the antemortemn and the postmortem records for the six teeth (#3, A, B, I, I, and #14) that are imaged in the antemortem radiographs Morphological similarities in both the marginal ridges and triangular ridges of theism ED js 5165¢0, 101 TTT o:ecludes 4 definitive statement on identification. Based upon the above anthropological and dental comparisons, itis our opinion that the individual designated by the PCOME as 17-0568 cannot be excluded as being Zsabel Mercedes CELIS. Brace € Anderson, PHD Forensic Anthropologist Digitally signed by Jennifer M. Voliner, Ph.D. Forensic Anthropologist Date: 2017.04.11 10:54:12 -07'00' Enclosures Skeletel Diagram Dental Chart Omnibus Skeletal Age Estimate Tablemeee, Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner oe W.H. Birkby Forensic Anthropology Laboratory Omnibus Skeletal Age Estimate Table Age Estimate ee Fuses at 4-6 mmm | Fuses ot 3-4 =, Fuses at ~12 |e | Fuses at 3-5 = = ze a em | Fuses at 2-6 | ——— ro = puberty See | 9p e25 2-5) Fuses at — puber | Mixed dentition ‘Age estimate| (See Dentition in report)WH BIRKBY FORENSIC JB} OF THE MEDICAL EXAMINER CASE: _17-0568 Dare:__4 March 2017 tn & peetaecs AT ETATWH BIRKBY FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY LABORATORY PIMA COUNTY OFFICE o 17-0568% Jf] OF THE MEDICAL EXAMINER “ASE: FORENSIC SCIENCE CENTER 2825 E. DISTRICT SY 4 March 2017 TUCSON. ARIZONS BSTI4 DATE @