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• Cover
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Foolish Assumptions
• Icons Used in This Book
• Beyond the Book
• Where to Go from Here
• Part 1: Cracking Open the Case
• Chapter 1: Understanding the World of Forensic Science
• Defining Forensics: The Science of Catching Criminals
• Getting the Big Picture: Forensic Science in Action
• Investigating the Crime Lab
• Peeking Inside the Criminalist’s Toolbox
• The Cornerstone of Forensic Science: Locard’s Exchange Principle
• Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Forensics Team
• Gathering the Evidence: The Criminalist at Work
• From Analyzing Blood to Identifying Bugs: Forensic Science Specialists
• Forensic Investigation’s Head Honcho: The Medical Examiner
• Dealing with the Dead: The Coroner’s Technician
• Testifying as an Expert
• Chapter 3: Collecting and Protecting the Evidence
• Assessing the Scene of the Crime
• Classifying the Evidence
• Locating the Evidence
• Collecting and Preserving the Evidence
• Locating a Missing Corpse
• Chapter 4: Delving into the Criminal Mind
• Defining the Role of the Forensic Psychiatric Professional
• Assessing the Brain
• Dealing with Deception
• Assessing Competence and Sanity
• Tracking Serial Offenders
• Profiling the Perpetrator
• Linking Criminals and Crime Scenes
• Part 2: Analyzing the Evidence
• Chapter 5: Fingerprints: Your Personal Signature
• Getting a Grip on Fingerprints
• Making Matching Easier: Classifying Prints
• Locating Those Sneaky Prints
• Chapter 6: Painting A Gruesome Picture: Bloodstain Analysis
• Understanding Blood’s Character
• Analyzing Bloodstain Patterns
• Putting It All Together: A Hypothetical Case
• Chapter 7: Leaving Impressive Impressions: Shoes, Tires, and Tools
• Stepping Out: Shoeprints as Evidence
• Tracking Down Tires
• Prying Clues from Tool Marks
• Finding Facts in Fabrics
• Chapter 8: Burning Down the House: Is It Arson?
• Striking the Match: Looking into Fire-Starters
• Determining Where and How the Fire Started
• Heating Things Up: Accelerants
• Investigating Homicidal Fires
• Evaluating Explosive Situations
• Part 3: Examining the Body
• Chapter 9: Determining the Cause and Manner of Death: Forensic Autopsies
• Defining Death and Declaring It as Such
• Shadowing the Forensic Pathologist
• Performing an Autopsy
• Filing the Official Autopsy Report
• Chapter 10: Identifying Unknown Victims
• Identifying the Body
• Using DNA To Make the ID
• Dem Bones, Dem Bones: Working with Skeletons
• Reconstructing Faces
• Comparing Photographs
• Chapter 11: Estimating the Time of Death
• Defining Time of Death
• Examining the Body to Estimate Time of Death
• Gathering Other Clues
• Chapter 12: Ouch! That Hurts: Traumatic Injuries and Deaths
• Unleashing the Power of Guns and Gun Evidence
• Slicing, Dicing, and Stabbing
• Taking the Hit: Blunt-Force Trauma
• A Shocking Situation: Electrocution
• The R Word: Dealing with Rape
• Chapter 13: Gasping for Air: Asphyxia
• Understanding Asphyxia
• Gasping for Oxygen: Suffocation
• Grasping Strangulation
• Inhaling Deadly Air: Toxic Gases
• Drowning: Water, Water Everywhere
• Part 4: Utilizing the Crime Lab
• Chapter 14: Analyzing Blood and Other Bodily Fluids: Serology
• Blood: Life’s Most Precious Fluid
• Identifying a Bloodstain’s Source
• Testing for Paternity
• Looking at Other Bodily Fluids
• Chapter 15: Looking Deep Inside: DNA Analysis
• Opening an Instruction Manual for Your Cells
• Fingering Criminals Using DNA Fingerprints
• Understanding the DNA Fingerprinting Process
• Using DNA to Determine Lineage
• Chapter 16: Testing for Drugs and Poisons: The Toxicology Lab
• Understanding Poisons
• Defining Toxicology
• Seeking Toxins
• Examining the Testing Procedures
• Looking at Common Drugs
• Checking Out Familiar Poisons
• Chapter 17: Picking Apart Trace Evidence
• Defining Trace Evidence
• Understanding Analytical Instruments
• Splitting Hairs: Linking Crime to Coiffure
• Fiddling with Fibers
• Cracking the Mysteries of Glass
• Puttering with Paints
• Getting Down and Dirty: Soils and Plants
• Chapter 18: Bang! Bang!: Analyzing Firearms Evidence
• Figuring Out Firearms
• Extracting Info from Ammo
• Getting Groovy: Comparing Rifling Patterns
• The Proof’s in the Powder: Gunshot Residues
• Chapter 19: Questioning the Validity of Documents
• Analyzing Handwriting
• Exposing Alterations
• Looking for Indentions
• Examining Papers and Inks
• Dissecting Typewriters and Photocopiers
• Part 5: The Part of Tens
• Chapter 20: Ten Famous Forensic Cases
• Using a Homemade Ladder: The Lindbergh Kidnapping
• Sacco and Vanzetti and Sacco’s Gun
• Ted Bundy’s Bite Marks
• Stella Nickell’s Trail of Fingerprints
• Finding Fibers on Jeffrey MacDonald
• Georgi Markov and the Lethal Umbrella
• The Hendricks Family’s Last Meal
• Picturing John List
• Being Anastasia Romanov
• Faking Hitler’s Diaries
• Chapter 21: Ten Ways Hollywood Gets It Wrong
• The Quick Death
• The Pretty Death
• The Bleeding Corpse
• The Exact Time of Death
• The One-Punch Knockout
• The Disappearing Black Eye
• The Fast-Acting Poison
• The Untraceable Poison
• The Instant Athlete
• The High-Tech Lab
• Chapter 22: Ten Great Forensic Careers
• Criminalist
• Crime Scene Investigator
• Forensic Investigator
• Forensic Pathologist
• Forensic Pathology Technician
• Forensic Anthropologist
• Forensic Toxicologist
• Fingerprint Examiner
• Forensic Document Examiner
• Forensic DNA Analyst
• Index
• About the Author
• Connect with Dummies
• End User License Agreement