How to Crack a Murder Case: A Crime Scene Investigation Handbook

Author: Michael Crowe (USA)
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book combines scientific rigor, knowledge, and practicality, making it highly readable. In this book, the author presents the forensic techniques used in the United States today in an expert's firsthand perspective. It includes: ballistics, DNA comparison, fingerprint analysis, blood type determination, crime scene investigation, post-mortem examination, and more. The book begins with a fictional murder case, showing readers how criminal experts apply these techniques to solve crimes. A few fibers, the shape of over the years, the small indentations left by a bullet—all of these can either exonerate an innocent person or send a murderer to trial.