Skin of Her Teeth

Skin of Her Teeth refers to episode 16 of the Season 6 of the television series Forensic Files which was broadcast for the first time on September 3, 2001.

Plot summary
In 1994, a human skull retrieved from a Hamilton, Ohio pond reveals a ghastly crime. Markings on the skull indicate that the victim had been stabbed multiple times and that the teeth had been removed with needle-nose pliers, in an attempt to keep the victim's identity a secret.

A mitochondrial DNA match between the skull and the victim’s 18-month-old son was used to positively identify the remains as 21-year-old Tina Elaine Mott, who was reported missing two months earlier. Investigators focus on Tina's live-in boyfriend Timothy Bradford, and faced with the forensic evidence against him, Bradford confessed to killing and dismembering Mott.