Hidden Evidence: 40 True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them - Hardcover

Owen, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1552094928 ISBN 13: 9781552094921

Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

A thought-provoking look at the role of forensic science in criminal investigations examines forty high-profile cases and the diverse technologies used to solve them--including fingerprinting, handwriting analyses, DNA testing, toxicology, and others--in a study that includes a preface by best-selling novelist Kathy Reichs and a foreword by the Thomas T. Noguchi.

About this title

Product Description:

Hidden Evidence: Forty True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped to Solve Them

About the Author:

David Owen, a graduate in engineering, moved from the aerospace industry into scientific writing and journalism. His works include publications on military deception and air accident investigations plus radio and television documentaries on electronic intelligence and computer crime.

Thomas T. Noguchi, M.D. was Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner for the County of Los Angeles, where he was involved in the investigations of the deaths of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Sharon Tate and Janis Joplin. He is Professor Emeritus of Forensic Pathology at the University of Southern California.

Kathy Reichs is author of the best-selling murder mysteries "Déjà Dead" and Death du Jour. She is forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaries et de Médecine légale, Québec. She is also on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences

About this edition

• Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1552094928
• ISBN 13: 9781552094921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240