Debra Komar has worked as a forensic anthropologist in the US, UK, and Canada for over twenty years. She has investigated human-rights violations resulting in violent deaths for the United Nations and Physicians for Human Rights, testified as an expert witness in The Hague and across North America, and authored the authoritative Forensic Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Practice for Oxford University Press. The Lynching of Peter Wheeler is her second book on historic crimes. Her first, The Ballad of Jacob Peck, was published in 2013 and was met with considerable critical acclaim.