Forensic Pathology - new tests

A new Patricia Cornwall's Kay Scarpetta novel "Autopsy" has been released and it will be interesting to see what this forensic pathologist is up to this time.
In the real world, here in Australia, the Australian Federal Police have begun testing of unidentified human remains with new technology that will allow them to estimate an individual's year of birth and death, ancestral origin, hair and eye colour and even their facial appearance.
There are 2,600 long-term missing persons in Australia; there are just 850 sets of human remains in mortuary and other facilities throughout the country. Some of these remains will go through the new forensic testing in the hope they can be identified and that answers of what happened to their loved ones can finally be provided to their families.
The report I read on the ABC site can be found here.