Dr Scott Fairgrieve testified on March 9, 2007 regarding the bones.
http://www.stevenaverycase.org/wp-co...-2007Mar09.pdf
His testimony begins around page 107.
On page 129 there is discussion of whether it could be determined whether the bones had been burned at the locations where they were found.
Q. Okay. And based on the recovery method that was
18 used here, are you able to offer an opinion, to a
19 reasonable degree of scientific certainty, about
20 where these human remains were burned?
21 A. No, I'm not.
22 Q. Why not?
23 A. Well, the fact is, that because I don't have any
24 records from which to examine that would actually
25 indicate to me that there are bones in the
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1 original location, where they were burned, I
2 can't offer an opinion on that.
And a little later offers this:
17 Q. Okay. And based on the recovery method that was
18 used here, are you able to offer an opinion, to a
19 reasonable degree of scientific certainty, about
20 where these human remains were burned?
21 A. No, I'm not.
22 Q. Why not?
23 A. Well, the fact is, that because I don't have any
24 records from which to examine that would actually
25 indicate to me that there are bones in the
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1 original location, where they were burned, I
2 can't offer an opinion on that.
and further
17 Q. Well, can you agree with Dr. Eisenberg's opinion,
18 as I recall it, that probably the area behind
19 Mr. Avery's garage was the original burn site for
20 the bone fragments, wherever found?
21 A. I cannot agree with that at this point.
22 Q. Why not?
23 A. Well, because, firstly, the documentation. The
24 documentation itself did not lend itself to that
25 interpretation, so I can make no inference
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Furthermore:
16 A. I have been involved in cases where human
17 cremains have been burned in one location and
18 moved to another location. And in those cases,
19 in fact, the actual location where the bones have
20 been moved to, in other words, their ultimate
21 location of where they have been buried, or
22 placed in another context, tends to be the
23 location where most of the remains are. And in
24 those -- in that instance, for example, I have
25 recovered elements or parts of the skeleton from
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1 all areas of the body.
continuing:
4 Q. Are you saying that in your experience, when --
5 when burnt bones are moved, you tend to find the
6 majority of them away from the place in which
7 they were burned; in other words, find them in
8 the place to which they were moved, not from
9 which they were moved?
...
14 A. I understand that, from your question, the answer
15 is, yes, in the cases I have dealt with where
16 human cremains have been moved, the majority of
17 them have been from the body and making up the
18 largest portion of the body, from the ultimate
19 final place where they were actually moved to.
So it would seem that Fairgrieve declined to identify the quarry as the original burn site, he did offer that in his experience that when cremains are moved the majority will be found in the new location and not in the original location.
