Discusses the work of crime scene investigators, including the unique features of fingerprints and how they are obtained, and covers shoeprints, tire marks, lip prints, and how evidence is analyzed in the lab, and contains a glossary.
Discusses how crime scene investigators collect, use, and analyze hairs and fibers using microscopes, DNA databases, and police profiles, and includes a glossary.
Offers a brief history of forensic science and describes instances in which its techniques have been used to investigate various crimes, including murder, identity theft, and art forgery.
Describes clues bodies leave behind about the cause of death, procedures for autopsies, and ways medical examiners form an opinion about how a death has occurred.