The Mammoth Book of New CSI
Author | : Nigel Cawthorne |
Publisher | : C & R Crime |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2012-04-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781780335346 |
ISBN-13 | : 1780335342 |
Rating | : 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Detailed accounts of over 30 contemporary cases, or older cases reopened as a result of advances in forensic science. Crime scene investigations draw on a wide range of cutting-edge technology including genetic fingerprinting, blood splatter analysis, laser ablation, toxicology and ballistics analysis. Cases covered here include: the abduction of Madeleine McCann; the vindication of Colin Stagg, convicted of having murdered Rachel Nickell; Hadden Clark who killed and ate a six-year-old child in Maryland; Robert Pickton, the Vancouver farmer who fed his female victims to his pigs; the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia (was Amanda Knox guilty?); Lindsay Hawker's gruesome death in Japan; Josef Fritzl and the cellar in which he imprisoned and raped his daughter.