A question of evidence : a casebook of great forensic controversies, from Napoleon to O.J. / Colin Evans.

  • Evans, Colin, 1948-
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[2003], ©2003
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Scientific sleuthing and slip-ups in the investigations of fifteen famous casesRanging from the Turin Shroud and the suspicious death of Napoleon Bonaparte to the murder cases of Dr. Sam "The Fugitive" Sheppard and O. J. Simpson, A Question of Evidence takes readers inside some of the most vexing forensic controversies of all time. In each case, Colin Evans lays out the conflicting medical and scientific evidence and shows how it was used or mishandled in reaching a verdict. Among the other cases: the assassination of JFK, the strange history of Alfred Packer (the only convicted American canni

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Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley & Sons, [2003], ©2003.

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1 online resource (v, 250 pages) : illustrations

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-245) and index.

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Introduction -- The Turin Shroud: genuine relic or medieval fake? -- Napoleon Bonaparte; poison, poison everywhere -- Alfred Packer: the Colorado cannibal -- Donald Merrett: freed by forensics to kill again -- William Lancaster: a bullet in the night -- Sir Henry John Delves Broughton: murder in high places -- Alfred de Marigny: the bogus fingerprint -- Sam Sheppard: medical malpractice and Dr. Sam -- Steven Truscott: a time for dying -- Lee Harvey Oswald: the calculating patsy -- Jeffrey MacDonald: fatal revision -- Lindy Chamberlain: Australia's forensic nightmare -- Roberto Calvi: the curious death of God's banker -- Colin Stagg: mind games -- O.J. Simpson: when money met science.

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  • 9780471462682