autopsy

Although controversial, true crime is more popular than ever. Experts believe this is because people enjoy the opportunity to face their deepest fears without actually putting themselves in danger. This compelling volume features more than a dozen true crime stories involving dead bodies, skeletons, and innovative crime-solving techniques. Readers will feel like they are part of the action of solving each crime with elaborate illustrations and a layout inspired by graphic novels. Each story also features realistic dialogue. Explanatory text describing key ideas about forensics, including crime scene investigation (CSI), make this engaging title one that will inspire a lasting appreciation for this important role of science in criminal and civil law.

He's been dead for more than 5,000 years and poked, prodded, and probed by scientists for the last 20. Yet Otzi the Iceman, the famous mummified corpse pulled from a glacier in the Italian Alps, continues to keep many secrets. Now, through an autopsy like none other, scientists will attempt to unravel mysteries about the ancient mummy, revealing not only the details of Otzi's death but also an entire way of life.

Describes methods used by experts to determine the cause of death to solve crimes.

A collection of comics that explore the responsibilities of forensic pathologists and describe the methods they use to identify a corpse and determine time and cause of death.

Explores how toxicologists, ballistics experts, on-scene photographers, autopsy technicians, and forensic anthropologists work together to establish the cause of death in suspicious or unnatural death cases and provides ten related case studies, photographs, and illustrations.

Dr. Frederick Zugibe, chief medical examiner of Rockland County, New York, offers a behind-the-scenes look at eleven of his most notorious cases.