murder

Describes the work of forensic scientists in crime investigations, discussing crime scenes, trace evidence, ballistics, handwriting, blood, DNA, bones, fingerprints, and the presentation of evidence in trials.

Raskolnikov, an impoverished Russian student, murders a despicable old pawnbroker, reasoning that his evil act is outweighed by humanitarian good, but he discovers the fault in his theory when he is plagued by horror and guilt over his actions. Includes a selection of study aids.

The family of a murder victim, a journalist opposed to capital punishment, and the man convicted of the killing find their lives bound together as the execution hour approaches, while the person who knows the truth about the murder waits to plunge them into an abyss of terror.

The author interviews a number of experts from various stages of the criminal justice process in order to establish the vast differences between the ways in which forensic science is portrayed on television and reality.

Reexamines the murder of Bessie Goldberg in the Boston suburb of Belmont in 1963--a crime for which African-American handyman Roy Smith was tried and convicted--in light of the confession two years later by Albert DeSalvo to being the notorious Boston Strangler, and the knowledge that DeSalvo was also in the neighborhood the day Goldberg died, working at the author's home.

Examines the murder of twenty-year-old Manhattan cigar salesgirl Mary Rogers in 1841, the troubled life of Edgar Allan Poe, and his treatment of the case in his story "The Mystery of Marie Rog?t.".

Miss Marple refuses to take matters at face value when the body of a young woman is found in the colonel's library.

Presents an account of the murder of Iowa farmer John Hossack in December 1900, drawing from newspaper accounts, government documents, unpublished memoirs, and the legal record to retrace the subsequent investigation, and the arrest and trial of his wife, Margaret.

Tells the parallel stories of the skepticism and incredulity that accompanied Guglielmo Marconi's invention of wireless communication in the late nineteenth century, and the investigation of the murder of an inconvenient wife by her love-starved husband, Dr. H.H. Crippen, who would likely have pulled off the perfect crime had it not been for the ability to send wireless transatlantic transmissions.

Recounts the true story of the 1955 murders of three Chicago boys and the ATF agents who, forty years after the crime was committed, launched their own investigation and tracked down the killer.