Forensics

Introduction: Welcome to Forensics

Chapter 1. Forensics: Past to Present

When Did Forensics Begin?

Early Forensics

Tracking the Poisoners

Modern Forensics arrives

Science Tracks the Criminals

Early Crime Laboratories

Chapter 2. Scene of the Crime

First Response

Conducting a Crime Investigation

Trace Evidence

Blood Evidence

Picking Up Prints

Specialized Photography

Arson Scenes

Chapter 3. Crime Laboratories

The FBI Laboratory

Inside the FBI Laboratory

The DEA Laboratory

Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory

ATF Laboratories

laboratories for All Purposes

State and Local Crime Laboratories

Crime Laboratories Around the World

Chapter 4. Forensic Pathology

Coroner or Medical Examiner?

Dead Men Tell Tales

The Autopsy

Asphyxation

Knife Wounds

Bullet Wounds

A Different Kind of dentist

Chapter 5. Forensic Anthropology

The Role of Forensic Anthropology

The Study of Bones

Reading Bones

A Classic Case

The Body Farm

Re-Creating Faces

Human Rights

Chapter 6. Traditional and Tested

About Fingerprints

Fingerprint Characteristics

Foolproof Fingerprints?

Ballistics

Firearms Comparisons

Trace Evidence

Questioned Documents

Ready Reference

Advances in Forensic Science

Becoming a Forensic Scientist

Forensic Science Specialties

Chapter 7. DNA and Microbial Forensics

About DNA

Discovery of DNA Fingerprints

How DNA Testing Works

DNA Successes

DNA Testing After the Fact

Other Uses of DNA Testing

Microbes as Evidence

Chapter 8. The Chemistry of Crime

Testing Techniques

The Role of the Toxicologist

Poisons

Drug Overdoses

Alcohol

Clandestine Drug Labs

Arson

Chapter 9. Profiling Criminals

A Profile of Profiling

The Development of Profiling

Profiling from Evidence

Profiling Projections

Introducing the Serial Killer

Varieties of Serial Killer

Profiles of Arsonists

Chapter 10. Clues from Nature

Forensic Botany

Forensic Palynology

The Properties of Pollen

Soils Yield Secrets

Storm Stories

Insects Tell Time

Insects in Investigations

Chapter 11. Digging Into Mysteries

Who Killed King Tut?

The Iceman Mystery

Cannibal Cousins?

The Bog Man Murders

Mass Graves and Human Rights

The World Trade Center

The Old-Fashioned Way

Chapter 12. Forensics, Fact and Fiction

Forensics Foreshadowed

Conan Doyle as a Detective

Forensics Fiction

Media Superstars

Forensics on Television

The CSI Effect

Pop Science, Real Science

Glossary

Further Reading

At the Smithsonian

Index

Acknowledgments/Picture Credits