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Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
299 p.
Language
English
Description
No two stories about the capture of a serial killer are the same. Sometimes, the killers make crucial mistakes; other times, investigators get lucky. And the process of profiling, hunting, and apprehending these predators has changed radically over time, particularly in the field of criminal forensics, which has exploded in the last ten to 15 years. Laser ablation, video spectral analysis, cyber-sleuthing, and even DNA-based genetic genealogy are...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Professor Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and anatomist. She has lived her life eye-to-eye with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about her experiences in this award-winning book, which is part primer on the basics of identifying human remains, part frank memoir of a woman whose first paying job as a schoolgirl was an apprenticeship in a butcher shop, and part no-nonsense but deeply humane introduction to...