Full name: Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers

Authors: Michael Baden, Marion Roach Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: True crime, Non Fiction, Science, Mystery, Crime Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780684852713 0684852713

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. Similar books: The Casebook of Forensic Detection by Colin Evans Teasing Secrets from the Dead by Emily Craig Unnatural Death by Michael Baden Cause of Death by Cyril H. Wecht No Stone Unturned by Steve Jackson Blood Secrets by Rod Englert The Science of Cold Case Files by Katherine Ramsland What the Corpse Revealed by Hugh Miller Dead Men Do Tell Tales by William R. Maples Coroner's Journal by Louis Cataldie Forensic Detective by Robert Mann Death's Acre by Bill Bass Bones by Douglas H. Ubelaker Aftermath, Inc. by Gil Reavill Every Contact Leaves a Trace by Connie Fletcher Bad Blood by John Carreyrou The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson The Science of Sherlock Holmes by E. J. Wagner A is for Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup Dark Dreams by Roy Hazelwood