Crime Scenes: Revealing the Science Behind the Evidence"In the fight against crime, science and technology now play the leading role in many of the big police investigations making news headlines. All criminals leave a little of themselves behind at the scene of their crimes, and that is their undoing once CSIs start uncovering trails of clues hidden in blood or fragments of DNA. This book lets you in on the secrets of criminal investigators as well as the cutting-edge techniques science has brought to police work."--Back cover. |
Contents
Chapter | 11 |
The First Detectives | 18 |
Murder Under the Microscope | 26 |
Copyright | |
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Abductive reasoning able arrest attack autopsy ballistics blood body bomb bone bullet chemical Christopher Dean claimed clothes confessed convicted coroner corpse court CRIME LAB crime scene criminal crucial database deceased determine discovered Dr West drug examination expert explosive fact fatal fibres fingerprinting fire footprints forensic anthropologist forensic detection forensic evidence forensic science forensic scientists fragments genetic fingerprinting guilty hair identify identity John John Button killed killer King's Cross Fire known laboratory Larry Gene Bell later Maxwell microscopic murder O. J. Simpson paint pathologist pattern perpetrator photographed physical evidence poison police positive match prints proved question record recovered revealed Robert Maxwell Rosemary sample scene investigators shooting shot significant Simca skull splatter Stratton brothers suicide suspect swab tissue trace evidence tyre tracks Urschel victim vital clues weapon witness wound WPC Fletcher Yvonne Fletcher