Forensic Investigations - Volume 1

10 True Crimes Solved by Forensic Science

De: Guy Hadleigh

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS - VOLUME 1 This is the first book in a series telling the story of 10 true crimes, and the behind-the-scenes forensic investigations that took place to help discover the actual identity of the victims (in some cases), what happened to them, when it occurred and who did it. *The Arm in the Shark Case A dispute between Australian gangsters led to a murder that only came to light when a tiger shark disgorged a tattooed human arm in a Sydney aquarium. *Exploded Body For Miami police, proving that a badly disfigured skeleton was a former gang member helped them nail a notorious drug running gang. *Flaming Murder The fatal fire was an accident - or so everybody thought. But the victim in the garage had not died in an accident - he had been murdered. It was an almost perfect crime instigated by cruel and cunning Aboul-Hosn as part of an almost successful $1.25 million life insurance swindle. *Shotgun Suicide At first glance it was an open and shut case. The body of the biker was on the bed, a huge hole blown in its face. On the floor was a shotgun. It looked like suicide - but was it? *Nine Red Fibers 11-year-old Boy Scout Paul Kingsley was found strangled. His killer might well have escaped justice if not for some meticulous forensic detective work and the discovery of a few tiny fibers on his clothes. *Body Under the Floorboards When police pulled in Patrick Miller, he confessed to killing Barry Stone - by accident. It was down to Home Office pathologists to discover the truth. *The Arrest of Dr. Crippen Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen was a henpecked husband. But one day the worm turned and he murdered his wife in what became one of the most famous crimes of the 20th century. He almost got away with it. *14 Year Old Sex Killer On a hot summers evening in Ontario, 12-year-old Lynn Harper, daughter of a Royal Canadian air force officer disappeared right after she left a meeting of the local Brownie troop. She was last seen cycling into the woods with a 14-year-old boy..... *Blazing Car Mystery It could have been a perfect crime. The charred and totally unrecognizable remains of a man were found in a blazing car after what looked like a terrible accident. But as the police began to investigate, their doubts began to grow. Had the victim been murdered? *Dentist Traps Killer It started as the kind of mugging so common on the streets of Florida at that time. But the attack on Barbara Grimes ended tragically. It took a combination of pure chance and diligent forensic work to eventually catch her murderer.