Crime Scene ANNOTATION
Each chapter starts with an actual homicide crime scene examined by the author and follows the entire investigative team as they gather and collect evidence. The book expands to reveal the secrets of many aspects of forensic science--from the fundamentals to the cutting edge--including fingerprints, ballistics, toxicology, body fluids, DNA testing, and autopsies. Original.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
One of the nation's top forensic scientists, Larry Ragle has investigated countless brutal and baffling crimes during his forty-year career. Now he takes us behind the yellow police tape and into the medical examiner's laboratory for a fascinating look at his most sensational cases, revealing how cutting-edge science and medical technology were used to shed brilliant light on the criminals and their transgressions. Here is the real world of C.S.I. — where astonishingly detailed portraits of malefactors are painted with a single drop of blood, and a microscopic fiber can direct the police to even the most careful and elusive of murderers.
FROM THE CRITICS
T. Jefferson Parker
A fascinating read for anyone with an interest in the amazing world where science meets crime.
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