Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers

Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching KillersFor most people, the forensic sciences are something reported on the news when a crime is solved through DNA evidence, or used as a plot twist for television shows. But behind the crime scene tape and the doors of the morgue is a world never seen by the public. Now famed pathologist and medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden and award winning writer Marion Roach take readers into the laboratory, above the autopsy table, onto the witness stand and out in

For most people, the forensic sciences are something reported on the news when a crime is solved through DNA evidence, or used as a plot twist for television shows. But behind the crime-scene tape and the doors of the morgue is a world never seen by the public. Now famed pathologist and medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden and award-winning writer Marion Roach take readers into the laboratory, above the autopsy table, onto the witness stand and out in the field to show how advances in forensic science can solve crucial questions in a criminal case, often with startling accuracy.
Baden and Roach reveal how a key clue to the killer of Nicole Brown Simpson was lost when her body was moved to the morgue, and why the JonBenet Ramsey case can never be solved. They show how no clue is too small to be analyzed and no case too old to be reopened. Full of behind-the-scenes drama and surprising revelations, Dead Reckoning is a fascinating look at how forensic science is changing the way we convict the guilty and free the innocent.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 09/04/2002
ISBN: 9780684852713
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 5.50h x 8.40w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Kliatt 01/01/2003 pg. 35