William Maple

Born in Dallas in 1937 and later based at the University of Florida, William R. Maples built a reputation as a leading forensic anthropologist. He worked at the Florida Museum of Natural History's C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory and became known for applying skeletal analysis to both criminal cases and historical mysteries.

Maples also reached a wide audience as an author. He is best known for Dead Men Do Tell Tales, a book that presents forensic anthropology through memorable case histories and explains how careful study of human remains can reveal identity, injury, and cause of death.

He died in Gainesville, Florida, in 1997. Reliable image searches during this session did not surface a clearly usable portrait from page images, so no profile image is included here.