An intrepid investigator craws through miles of air-conditioning ducts to capture the implicating fibers of a suspect's wool jacket...A forensic entomolgist discovers insects in the grill of a car and nails down a drug dealer's precise geographical path...A gluttonous criminal's fingerprints are lifted from a chochlate truffle...Filled with these and many other intriguing true stories, and packed with black-and-white illustrations and photographs. The Forensics Casebook draws on interviews with police personnel and forensic scientists-including animal examiners, botanists, zoologists, firearms specialists, and autoposits-to uncover the vast and detailed underworkings of criminal investigation. Encyclopedic in scope, this riveting, authoritative book leaves no aspect of forensic science untouched, covering such fascinating topics securing a crime scene, identifying blood splatter patterns, collecting fingerprints-and feet, lip, and ear prints, interpreting the stages of body's decay, examining hair and fibert evidence, trace evidence from firearms and explosives, "lifting" DNA prints, computer crime and forensic photography, career paths in criminal science.
