Bones, Bugs, and DNA

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Forensic Science is the application of science to criminal and civil law. It mainly applies to criminal investigations, as governed by the legal standards of admissable evidence and criminal procedure. There are several forensic disciplines including DNA, ballistics, fingerprint analysis, trace evidence, and digital.

Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist by William R. Maples

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Blood, Bullets, and Bones: The Story of Forensic Science from Sherlock Holmes to DNA by Bridget Heos

Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab and Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales by William M. Bass

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South by Radley Balko

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum

Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome but Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science by Nigel McCrery

The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid

Animal Investigators: How the World's First Wildlife Forensics Lab is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species by Laurel Abrams Neme

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham

Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science by William M. Bass

Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek

By Sabrina on October 5, 2020