Beyond the body farm : a legendary bone detective explores murders, mysteries, and the revolution in forensic science /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
HarperCollins,
[2007]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A half-century of forensic evolution and revolution
- The golden bowl, the burning palace : applying modern science to ancient bones
- Splash landing, part 1 : finding answers in teeth and skull morphology
- Shedding light on a victims bones : using UV to illuminate identity
- Forensics at the speed of flight : interpreting teeth and trauma
- The rockets' red glare, bodies bursting in air : dealing with a mass disaster
- Dead for the holidays : determining time since death
- A Texas scorcher : finding a fingerprint in a frontal sinus
- No butts about it : convicting a killer by matching bite marks
- Listening to the bugs : pinpointing time since death with forensic entomology
- The professor versus the computer : harnessing software to determine race and ID a victim
- Science at the cutting edge : scanning a knife mark with electron microscopy
- Leoma Patterson, part 1 : reopening an old coffinand an old case with DNA
- Splash landing, part 2 : searching the depths with sonar
- Leoma Patterson, part 2 : putting a face on the dead
- The day the bopper died : digging for the truth, and finding it with x-rays
- Leoma Patterson, part 3 : pushing the limits of DNA testing.