Forensics Science Stories

Fifty American crimes that are fully documented — and still almost impossible to believe. A delivery driver walks into a bank with a live bomb locked around his neck. A woman is shot on her own doorstep by a clown holding balloons. A sealed steel drum sits in a suburban crawl space for twenty-eight years with a woman inside it. None of this is invented. Every case here happened, and every case left a paper trail. 50 American True Crime Stories That Shouldn't Be Real collects fifty cases from thirty-six states and a full century of American record-keeping — from a Los Angeles attic in ...

No Stone Unturned recreates the genesis of NecroSearch International: a small ,eclectic group of scientists and law enforcement personal, active and retired, who volunteer their services to help locate the clandestine graves of murder victims and recover the remains and evidence to assist with the apprehension and conviction of the killers.

Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd, in the true crime book of the year - brought to you by Penguin. 'The dead do not hide the truth and they never lie. Through me the dead can speak . . .' He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death. He has performed over 23,000...

A riveting true crime story that vividly recounts the birth of modern forensics. At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher, known and feared as “The Killer of Little Shepherds,” terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities for years—until he ran up...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A gripping account of the deadliest Ebola epidemic yet, an urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses, and a tribute to the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us—from the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone “Crisis in the Red Zone reads...

Brought to you by Penguin. The heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd. This book is about death, but in it I will take readers on a journey through life... What can death teach us about life?...

**A priceless medieval manuscript. A phantom poisoner. A lethal secret waiting five centuries to be unveiled.** When the Reverend Tobias Winter arrives at 221B Baker Street on an autumn evening in 1894, he brings no crude tale of common violence, but a mystery of exquisite subtlety: a fourteenth-century illuminated leaf from a sacred chantry psalter whose painted monarch is slowly, inexplicably fading. While the holy text and gold leaf remain pristine, the royal mantle of King David—once a brilliant ultramarine lapis lazuli—is turning a sickly slate grey. More alarming still, the vellum...

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims’ families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and...

Acclaimed crime historian, podcaster, and author of American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloff—a serial murderer who was called “too intelligent to be killed”—and the array of 19th century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to...

What happens when America's most sophisticated forensic science meets murders that defy all explanation? In these sixteen chilling true crime cases, detective work collides with the impossible. From prophecies that predict murders with perfect alibis to bank robbers locked inside vaults before opening time, from synchronized twin murders committed simultaneously across different states to footprints that appear in snow hours after the victim's death—these are the cases that shattered everything investigators thought they knew about crime. The Prescott Prophecy Killer predicted three ...

What if the answer was never hidden, and nobody had any reason to look there? You generally find what you went looking for. Research gets funded to answer a stated question, and most of the time that is the question it answers. This book is about the discoveries that came in sideways, while somebody was busy with an entirely different emergency. It is a book about the people more than the discoveries. The investigators called in after an accident bad enough that somebody finally had to find out why. The engineer who picked up a message with no wire to carry it. The expedition that went off ...

Africa has long been considered the cradle of life - where life and humans evolved - but somewhere west of Munich, Germany, paleoclimatologist and paleontologist Madelaine Böhme and her team make a discovery that is beyond anything they ever imagined: the 12-million-year-old bones of an ancient ape - Danuvius guggenmos - which makes headlines around the world and defies prevailing theories of human history and where human life began.

It's an amazing thing to be given a human body. It's not so amazing when you are trapped in it after you are dead. However, according to Dr. Joshua Lansing, it gives you some time to reflect on your life. Your good deeds, and your horrible secrets you took to the grave. Or so you think. Yes, death is quite a gift of meditation, at least until they turn the bone saw on. That thing is so loud. This is the #15th episode of The Night Portals Series.

A macabre domestic conspiracy, a stolen fortune, and a phantom wandering the streets of Victorian London. When the notoriously eccentric and tight-fisted widow Mrs. Clarissa Hargrave precipitously leaves her secluded Richmond villa for a health resort in the Swiss Alps, London’s financial markets are caught in an unexpected upheaval. Prime riverside properties, irreplaceable family heirlooms, and thousands of pounds in consols are liquidated at fire-sale speed by an unassuming clerk wielding an absolute power of attorney. Scotland Yard sees merely the erratic behavior of an aging recluse....

Some Monsters don't hide in shadows. They hide in plain sight. In Forensic Mysteries: Right Under Your Nose- Volume 1, seven chilling true crime stories reveal a disturbing pattern: the people we trust the most are sometimes the ones capable of the unthinkable. Behind the smiles, professional titles, and respected reputations lurked secrets that would eventually shock families, communities, and investigators alike. Seven true stories. Seven positions of trust. one devastating pattern. The greatest danger isn't a stranger, it's someone already standing beside you.

“A fast-burning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.”—ERIK LARSON A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat—a tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from...

Her Darkest Nightmare, first in an electrifying new series from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak THE HUNT FOR A SERIAL KILLER Evelyn Talbot knows that a psychopath can look perfectly normal. She was only sixteen when her own boyfriend Jasper imprisoned and tortured her—and left...

In the now-classic Forensics, internationally bestselling and award-winning “queen of crime” (CrimeReads) Val McDermid picks up the scalpel to uncover the secrets of forensic science, from the crime scene to the courtroom In the course of researching her best-selling books, McDermid has...

Still reeling from her last case, Detective Isobel "Bel" Emerson finds comfort in both her dog and her newfound friendships. But when she and her new partner, Detective Gold, are called to the site of a bear attack, they discover something far more horrifying: the body of a young woman posed inside a cabin where the furniture is all too big. And to make matters worse, the cabin is located on Eamon Stone's property.

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