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"They actually take the skin off the skull, rebuild the head to the shape it would have been, and then put the skin… back over the head."

It sounds like a gruesome crime, but in actual fact it was the complete opposite: a crucial step undertaken by Australian Federal Police that helped track down a man who murdered hundreds of innocent civilians, including dozens of Australians.

That was then-AFP detective superintendent David Craig, who led the federal police response to the 2005 Bali bombings.

Three of the most important pieces of the puzzle in tracking down the men behind the deadly attack were the heads of the trio of suicide bombers, which had been quickly retrieved by Indonesian authorities.

"The heads

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