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"The findings of forensic science―from DNA profiles and chemical identifications of illegal drugs to comparisons of bullets, fingerprints, and shoeprints―are widely used in police investigations and courtroom proceedings. While we recognize the significance of this evidence for criminal justice, the actual work of forensic scientists is rarely examined and largely misunderstood. Blood, Powder, and Residue goes inside a metropolitan crime laboratory...
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Amanda Jaffe novels volume 3
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Defense attorney Doug Weaver believes his client, Jacob Cohen, is innocent-but the forensic evidence proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that the meek, mentally ill homeless man killed and dismembered a woman . . .Hired to defend gangster Art Prochaska against charges that he murdered an informer, lawyer Amanda Jaffe and her father, Frank, have their work cut out for them-because, as improbable as it seems, the forensic clues scream that Prochaska...
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If the devil's in the details, then the crime scene investigator's got him: conducting searches, collecting evidence, photographing, scrutinizing, analyzing-pursuing the culprit right down to the last scrap of proof. Whether you'd like to become a crime scene investigator or simply want to see what it takes, look no further than this book. Like a top-notch forensics expert, author Henry M. Holden traces the path that crime scene investigators follow...
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When crime scene investigators (CSIs) are called to the location of a murder, they document what they see in detail and carefully collect the evidence. Evidence isn't always obvious to the untrained eye. Readers of this remarkable book, which includes dynamic photographs, will become trained to know what to look for at a crime scene as they tag along with scientists on an intriguing case. They'll learn about various kinds of evidence as well as how...
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When a crime is committed, police call in ... the scientists! More than ever before, science plays a huge role in crime detection and investigation. Visit the scenes of crimes and find out how these experts look at evidence and help bring criminals to justice. In the lab or in the streets ... crime scene techs are always on the go.
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For audiences of the popular FX television series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, based on Jeffrey Toobin's The Run of His Life and starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Travolta, David Schwimmer, and Courtney B. Vance. Named on Vogue Magazine's "American Crime Story Reading List" as one of the "eight definitive books on the trial of the century."
Twenty years ago, America was captivated by the awful drama of the O.J. Simpson trial....
14) Cleaner
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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2008
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A crime scene cleaner unwittingly entagles himself in a murder cover-up.