https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190115111950.htm

"Estimating someone's age at death, based on skeletal remains, helps to build a biological profile of the deceased," says Ann Ross, a professor of biological sciences at NC State and co-author of a paper on the work. "That's important information for identifying unidentified remains, and can also be important in law enforcement contexts."

At issue is a publicly available computer program called DXAGE, which was released in 2018. The program estimates age-at-death based on bone mineral density.