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Crime Scene: The Ultimate Guide To Forensic Science

The cases that hit the headlines:

Exciting case studies documents the forensics behind the controversial OJ Simpson trial, the Hitler Diaries fraud, and other high profile crimes where forensic evidence has proved crucial to the case.

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Accumulating and analysing key evidence:

Each chapters details methods and describes the highly specialised equipment that today's forensic investigators use to sift through crime scenes and examine findings.

From the crime scene to the courtroom:

Photographs from actual crime scenes are combined with absorbing descriptions, 3-D diagrams, and scientific close-ups to explain how evidence in court can include blast fragments, ear prints, toxicology reports, encrypted data files, and much, much more...

Crime Scenes: The Ultimate Guide to Forensic Scienceuses case studies and amazing digital imagery to show how science helps uncover the truth about how crimes were committed and who carried them out.

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