The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes - Hardcover

Evans, Colin

 
9780471076506: The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0471076503 ISBN 13: 9780471076506
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1996

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Examines more than two centuries of forensic technology and development and recounts real-life groundbreaking cases in fifteen different fields of forensics

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COLIN EVANS is a freelance writer specializing in crime. He is a contributor to Great American Trials and the author of Killer Doctors, published in England. He divides his time between Florida and London.

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What evidence led investigators to Ted Bundy, America’s most infamous serial killer? How was the mystery of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia, daughter of Czar Nicholas and Alexandra, solved after decades of speculation? How did authorities prove the notorious Hitler Diaries were a fraud? Discover the surprising answers in The Casebook of Forensic Detection, an enthralling account of one hundred groundbreaking real-life cases whose riddles were ultimately solved by scientific research. More than two centuries of technology and development come to vivid life as everything from handwriting analysis and voice-prints to ballistics, DNA testing, and psychological profiles reveal whodunit (and, in some startling cases, who didn’t do it).

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The Casebook of Forensic Detection A missing persons case is solvedfour decades after the victims disappearance. A twisted piece of metal yields conclusive proof of a terrorist bomb aboard Pan Am Flight 103. A murder suspects face is aged through computer enhancementand a killer is caught and convicted eighteen years after the crime. Today, what once was the stuff of science fiction has become fascinating fact. In The Casebook of Forensic Detection, crime-writing specialist Colin Evans recounts one hundred groundbreaking cases that have had a lasting impact on criminal investigation and trial proceedings. Spanning more than two centuries in the development of modern forensic procedures, this lively, eye-opening book examines the investigative tools that scientists, law enforcement officials, and legal experts use "to identify that which we cant see, and analyze that which we can." Packed with enough mystery and intrigue to satisfy the most avid true-crime buff, the cases illustrate the invaluable contribution made by forensic scientists. From fingerprinting and ballistics to toxicology, psychological profiling, and DNA typing, fifteen different fields of forensics are examined, each accompanied by a brief introduction and real-life examples of practical applications. Along the way, Evans brings to light the work of early forensic pioneers such as Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the doctor who took pathology out of the morgue and splashed it across the headlines of newspapers around the world, as well as such modern-day titans of technology as Dr. Alec Jeffreys, the discoverer of DNA "fingerprinting." True-crime aficionados will be rewarded by absorbing details from some of the most famous cases of all time, from Bruno Hauptmann and Sacco and Vanzetti to John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy (who was identified through odontology, the study of teeth marks left on crime victims). The less well-known cases prove equally intriguing, among them Australias legendary Shark Arm Murder case, famous for its fact-is-stranger-than-fiction conclusion. The evidence is clear. Blending history, mystery, and scientific research, The Casebook of Forensic Detection adds up to engrossing, cant-put-down excitement.

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Verlag
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0471076503
ISBN 13 
9780471076506
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Anzahl der Seiten
310
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