The casebook of forensic detection Book

This nonfiction book is a must for fans of CSI/Law & Order/Bones and any police drama that features forensics. The book is divided into sections, each discussing crimes and how a particular type of forensic science helped solve them. Under ballistics, you'll read of Sacco and Vanzetti; disputed documents uncovers the forged Hitler diaries; DNA typing, the Romanovs; fingerprinting, the notorious Kelly gang; forensic anthropology ("Bones"), the infamous John Wayne Gacy and Josef Mengele; odontology, the serial killer Ted Bundy. The cases are all very detailed and most of them were groundbreaking for their time. You'll learn of the forensic scientists like Edward Heinrich (who solved nearly 2000 crimes), Sir Edward Henry (the father of fingerprinting) and detectives whose names deserve to be as well remembered as the criminals.