BODIES OF EVIDENCE

Brian Innes

Silverdale 2001

Even as far as the 13^th century the Chinese appreciated that, at a crime scene, "the difference of a hair" could change whether or not a crime was solved. Since then, criminal investigators have learned how to interpret vital testimony that is written in the language of fingerprints and flakes of skin, fragments of teeth and bone, splashes of blood, flecks of paint and traces of chemicals, a splinter of glass or a uniquely striated bullet.

With more than 100 true crime case studies, this book is packed with case histories taken from around the world, including O.J.Simpson, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, The Mad Bomber, George Metesky, Tommie Lee Andrews, The Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez, Jack Unterweger, Lee Harvey Oswald, The Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, Jeffrey MacDonald, the Lockerbie bombing, the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, and many more.

Also includes many ‘firsts’, such as the first murder conviction without a bodie and the first successful use of DNA analysis to secure a conviction.

Illustrated throughout with 200 colour and black-and-white photographs, many of them offering rare and fascinating glimpses into police files.

Both the book and the dust jacket are in very good condition. As the book is a heavy item parcel or surface mail might be the order of the day.