Dr. Hillary Parsons is a practicing forensic anthropologist specializing in the search, recovery, analysis, and identification of human skeletal remains. She received her Ph.D. in biological anthropology from the University of Tennessee; her M.A. in anthropology from the University of Montana, and her B.S. in anthropology from Montana State University in her hometown of Bozeman, Montana. Hillary has instructed short-course topics in forensic anthropology for the past 17 years, working with the Southern Institute of Forensic Sciences and TriTech Forensics Training. She is a member of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, the Society for American Archaeology, and an associate member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Dr. Parsons is the sole-proprietor of her forensic anthropology-consulting firm, Odyssey Anthropology LLC, offering forensic anthropological and archaeological services at home and abroad. She regularly provides her expertise to attorneys and other medicolegal professionals for modern forensic casework and is currently the contracted forensic anthropologist for the Laboratorie de sciences judiciaries et de médicine légale in Montréal, Québec.

She assisted Kenyon International and SNA International assisting with the mortuary operations in New York City during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic and presently provides services for SNA International in their work with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). This project entails the search, recovery, and repatriation of fallen U.S. service personnel from the battlefields of Vietnam and World War II, work she has been involved with since 2015. As a subject matter expert, Hillary regularly consults for Milsearch Lao, an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) company located in Laos. Hillary’s knowledge of human skeletal remains and battlefield archaeology allows her to collaborate with EOD technicians to document and collect evidence associated with DPAA sites during the removal of unexploded ordnance from the jungles of Laos.

When not on assignment to remote locations in search and recovery of America’s fallen war heroes, Dr. Parsons serves as a medicolegal death investigator at the Whatcom County Medical Examiner’s Office in beautiful Bellingham, Washington.

Dr. Teresa ‘Lilly’ White is a native Montanan. She received her BSLS in 2005 from MSU-B, her BA in Forensic Anthropology in 2011, her MA in Forensic Anthropology in 2013, and her PhD in Anthropology in 2019, from the University of Montana.

Lilly and her husband Stocky (also a PhD in Anthropology), are the owners of Bone & Stone Anthrosciences, L.L.C. where they provide Anthropological & Archaeological Consulting Services and Educational Workshops to Federal, State, County, Tribal, and City Law Enforcement Personnel, Coroners/Death Investigators, Chaplains, Public Safety Officers, Forensic Specialists, Crime Scene Investigators, Physicians and Nurses, Mental Health Practitioners, Funeral Personnel and Death Doulas, International Emergency Services companies, and others.

From 2015-2018, Lilly created and facilitated a Medicolegal Death Investigation Conference at the University of Montana, where she provided continuing education to hundreds of attendees. She is a Medical Investigator and DMORT Region VIII Team Member with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and National Disaster Medical System (NDMS). She has worked as an Adjunct Instructor at UM, teaching Fundamentals of Forensic Science. She is also an instructor for Tri-tech Forensics Training, as well as working with Kenyon International Emergency Services as a FAC/SAT member and online course facilitator.
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Lilly teaches courses on: Cultural and forensic anthropology; human osteology; death notification interactions including compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma; human decomposition; forensic entomology theory and methods including collection techniques and postmortem interval estimations; thermal and explosives trauma on bodies and other taphonomic changes; bone pathology; forensic discovery, documentation, and recovery of scattered human remains and burials; differentiating peri-mortem gunshot  trauma from blunt force after a car fire; ethnographic methods including observation and interviewing techniques for investigators or researchers; cold and current death investigations and case reviews; grief facilitation; autoerotic asphyxia (AeA); equivocal deaths; social determinants of health for sexual abuse victims; dark tourism and other fascinating topics.