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50 Situations Awaiting Every Forensic Scientist is a personal guide to navigating the unique challenges and opportunities faced by America's forensic laboratory scientists. Charged with the awesome responsibility of giving a voice to the most commonly collected items of crime scene evidence, these highly trained professionals have a profound and lasting impact on the fairness and efficiency of our criminal justice system.

Después de ejercer como médico forense durante más de treinta años, Philippe Boxho ha cosechado un arrollador éxito internacional con este asombroso recorrido entre bastidores de la morgue. ¡Almas sensibles, abstenerse! Philippe Boxho comparte en su primer libro historias de su día a día y nos permite descubrir el mundo fascinante y poco conocido de su oficio. Al hilo de estas anécdotas sorprendentes e insólitas, Boxho nos invita a acompañarlo a la escena del crimen, a la sala de autopsias y a los demás lugares variados e inesperados donde le han llevado sus investigaciones.

Focused Interviewing is the third edition of the popular law enforcement text used to instruct interview and interrogation. The newest version has been updated to include only the scientifically validated approaches to the art of interviewing. Of particular interest in the section dealing with False Confession Syndrome and how to easily avoid similar allegations. Formerly strictly a law enforcement text, Focused Interviewing 2013 has been expanded to include approaches for parents, teachers, employers, employees, doctors and patients, military officers and investigators.

The 'if' of death is certain. The 'when' is unknown. It is the 'why' that really gets people's interest ... From a rare and deadly amniotic avalanche to a victim of roasted peanuts ... The bestselling author of The Cause of Death and The Quick and the Dead returns with more stranger-than-fiction...

Ein Mann lebt seine sexuellen Fantasien auf grausame Weise an Frauen aus. Zuletzt tötet er eines seiner Opfer. Nach einem Vierteljahrhundert hinter Gittern soll er wieder auf freien Fuß gesetzt werden. Seine Entlassung hängt auch von der Einschätzung seiner Psychologin ab: Wird der Mann in Freiheit strafrückfällig? Als Psychologin in der Sicherungsverwahrung einer JVA hatte Gilda Giebel täglich mit höchst gefährlichen Straftätern zu tun.

In 2003, Kathleen Folbigg was found guilty of smothering her four young children to death, one by one. Medical experts told her trial that they had never come across a family like hers, where three or more infants had died from natural causes. Extracts from diaries she had written were judged to be virtual admissions of guilt, and Folbigg was sentenced to 40 years in jail. But did she do it?