Michael M. Baden

Marion Roach

Presents a number of cases that demonstrate the processes and technology used to investigate crimes and prove guilt, including analyzing soil, plant matter, blood, teeth, and other evidence.

The New Science of Catching Killers

Dead Reckoning

Michael Baden

For most people, the forensic sciences are something reported on the news when a crime is solved through DNA evidence, or used as a plot twist for television shows. But behind the crime-scene tape and the doors of the morgue is a world never seen by the public. Now famed pathologist and medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden and award-winning writer Marion Roach take readers into the laboratory, above the autopsy table, onto the witness stand and out in the field to show how advances in forensic science can solve crucial questions in a criminal case, often with startling accuracy. Baden and Roach reveal how a key clue to the killer of Nicole Brown Simpson was lost when her body was moved to the morgue, and why the JonBenet Ramsey case can never be solved. They show how no clue is too small to be analyzed and no case too old to be reopened. Full of behind-the-scenes drama and surprising revelations, Dead Reckoning is a fascinating look at how forensic science is changing the way we convict the guilty and free the innocent.

Dead Reckoning" was an enlightening investigation into the investigation of death-a glimpse that questions the perceptions a person may have about death and justice. This is the kind of book that every reader interested in forensic sciences or mysteries of death should read, and it reminds us that each death has a story to tell, awaiting deciphering.

Doyenne

Dead Reckoning" was an enlightening investigation into the investigation of death-a glimpse that questions the perceptions a person may have about death and justice. This is the kind of book that every reader interested in forensic sciences or mysteries of death should read, and it reminds us that each death has a story to tell, awaiting deciphering.



Christina M Masters

The science in the book is good, but it is the anecdotes that really makes the book.

Dead Reckoning The New Science of Catching Killers

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