Forensic Scientist Albert Harper | Meeting the Minds

Scientist gets skulls and bones to 'talk to him'

Albert Harper, forensic anthropologist for the state of Connecticut, can make a skull give up its secrets.

By Billy Baker

Globe Correspondent / September 10, 2007

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It's a lovely Friday morning in the old Granary Burying Ground, and Albert Harper is in his realm, which is to say he's surrounded by interesting dead bodies. Harper, the 57-year-old executive director of the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science at the University of New Haven, is making his first visit to the circa 1660 Tremont Street cemetery ... (Full article: 850 words)