‘Those children could be my relatives’: Canada’s first Indigenous forensic pathologist on unmarked graves

Kona Williams says many unanswered questions remain about how to investigate remains found at the sites of residential schools

In her job as a forensic pathologist, Kona Williams investigates hundreds of deaths a year.

But when she heard that unmarked graves had been found at the site of a residential school in late May, she was seized by a grim realization.