crime scenes

Readers learn about painstaking detection techniques such as bloodstain analysis, ballistics, toxicology, and DNA profiling. These are just some of the invaluable tools of law enforcement referenced that are helping police solve the most perplexing cold cases.

An introduction to crime scene investigating that describes the jobs of forensic scientists, including forensic anthropologists, artists, engineers, and others, and specialists in the field, such as fingerprint analysts, ballistics specialists, bloodstain pattern analysts, and forensic photographers.

Novelist Tim Underhill, investigating the suicide of his sister-in-law and the disappearance a week later of her fifteen-year-old son, Mark, follows the path of a pedophilic serial killer which leads him to an empty house that holds echoes of horror.

Examines the careers available in the field of biohazard disposal, discussing the necessary education, training, and on-the-job duties.

While the ever-evolving criminal mind continues to be a menace to society, science is on the case and is ready to track down the worst offenders. Readers explore the science behind combating crime and discover what science is doing to thwart the dishonest and immoral through high-tech lab work and the best thinkers in the world.

Provides instructions for experiments that explain techniques used by crime scene investigators, such as fingerprinting and handwriting analysis; and offers tips on using the workshops as science fair projects.

Explores crime scene investigators, providing information about their training and techniques and procedures they use, including processing evidence, identifying victims, analyzing forensics, and more.

Contains true stories based on extensive interviews with police personnel and forensic scientists about criminal cases which have been solved using a variety of forensic techniques.