Dr. Ramsland tells the tale of H. H. Holmes, the serial killer who was able to work undetected in Chicago during the 1893 World's Fair. Holmes was actually caught because of a con he executed and the police gradually realized that they stumbled across a man who may be even more gruesome than the ...
An authoritative history of forensic science and the evolution of criminal investigation, from the author of The Forensic Science of C.S.I. and The Human Predator. Today, the basic scientific precepts of criminal investigation-fingerprinting, DNA, ballistics, and more-are widely known among pr...
He looked around at the burning candles on each table, which enhanced the intimate atmosphere. It was early May 1991. Anderson had driven to the city that day from Philadelphia, where he once worked as a Center City investment broker, to attend a political fund-raising dinner for a friend, Tony B...
First. McCarter got Faurot to admit that not all of the points on the suspect fingerprint matched Willie’s and that the card could have been contaminated.In addition, there was reason to wonder if the fingerprint had been planted on the card. In 1922, the fingerprint experts who carefully went ov...
He described a case of homicide in which the victim had been shot several times. The police had a suspect but could not confirm that his gun was the weapon used. Balthazard took photographs of the murder bullets and bullets fired from the suspect weapon, enlarged them, and found eighty-five simil...
With an IQ in the superior range, he knew enough about investigations to launch an assault in an area where no one knew him. But sometimes the need to kill overcame him and he acted on impulse. Young girls were best, he’d discovered, because they were so gullible. They let strangers pick them up....