Dimensions
110 x 178 x 23mm
Behind the crime-scene tape and the morgue doors is a world seldom seen by the public until recently. But now famed pathologist Michael Baden invites you on a tour of sites normally closed to visitors . . . into the laboratory, to the autopsy table, onto the witness stand and out into the field to show how recent advances in forensic science, including analysis of DNA evidence, can solve the crucial questions in a criminal case, often with starling accuracy.
In his forty-year career, former New York Chief Medical Examiner Dr Baden has conducted over 20,000 autopsies and has been consultant on many high-profile cases including the assassination of President Kennedy, the Nicole Brown Simpson-Ron Goldman murders, the JonBenet Ramsey case and the exhumation and examination of the remains of the murdered Tsar Nicholas and his family.
In this book, Baden and Roach practically place the scalpel in the reader's hands to show how advances in forensic science are solving crimes as never before. They visit cases both famous and ordinary to explain why the first hour at a crime scene is crucial.
They reveal, for the first time, how a key clue to the killer of Nicole Brown Simpson was lost during the transportation of her body to the morgue. In another case, they show how something as obscure as the imprint of a button on a dead man's skin was overlooked until months later when, while reviewing the crime-scene photos, Dr Baden saw it, causing the case to take an astonishing turn.
Baden and Roach invite readers to be present at the analysis of soil, plant matter, insects, blood spatters, bone, teeth, hair, weather and other crime-scene evidence to witness how the startling accuracy of science can improve the chances of a just verdict.
'Dead Reckoning' is a gripping and fascinating look at how forensic science is changing forever the way we convict the guilty and free the innocent.
