POLICE are still trying to identify the decomposed body of a woman found in the bushes of the Bukit Batok Nature Park on Monday morning.
It is a task forensic experts said could be extremely difficult, even with an array of scientific techniques such as DNA analysis and fingerprinting.
'Real life is not like (the television show) CSI,' said Assistant Professor Roderick Bates, who teaches a forensic science course at Nanyang Technological University.
'On CSI, it takes 30 to 40 minutes to solve a crime, but in real life, it takes much more hard work.'
So far, police have been unable to identify the woman, a spokesman said on Friday.
Her body was so badly decomposed, investigators could not even ascertain her race. She was believed to be about 1.53m tall and somewhere between 20 and 45 years old.
Her death has been classified as unnatural.
Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.
