Ergebnis für "%s" in Forensik

In 1908, Hazel Drew was found floating in a pond in Sand Lake, New York, beaten to death. The unsolved murder inspired rumors, speculation, ghost stories, and, almost a century later, the phenomenon of Twin Peaks. Who killed Hazel Drew? Like Laura Palmer, she was a paradox of personalities - a young, beautiful puzzle with secrets. Perhaps the even trickier question is, Who was Hazel Drew? The investigation that followed her brutal murder was fraught with red herrings, wild-goose chases, and unreliable witnesses.

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?

For readers of His Name Is George Floyd and Under the Skin A landmark investigation into forensic medicine that exposes the systematic concealment of state-sanctioned violence through death investigations Each year, police officers kill over 1,000 people they've sworn to protect and serve. While...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “undisputed master crime writer” (John Saul, New York Times bestselling author), a chilling tale of obsession, manipulation, and murder in small-town Washington. In A Fever in the Heart, lives are ended and families torn apart due to one man’s...

In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia Chaudry, a family friend, has always believed him. By 2013, after almost all appeals had been exhausted, Rabia contacted Sarah Koenig, a producer at This American Life, in hopes of finding a journalist who could shed light on Adnan’s story. In 2014, Koenig's investigation turned into Serial, a Peabody Award-winning podcast with more than 500 million international listeners.

In Serial Killers’ Dark Psychology, you’ll go beyond the headlines and crime scenes to uncover the hidden truths behind these terrifying predators. Using real case studies, forensic insights, and expert criminal profiling, this audiobook dives deep into the minds of history’s most ruthless murderers, exposing their methods, manipulations, and the terrifying logic behind their crimes.

The murder of Arlis Perry inside Stanford Memorial Church flummoxed detectives for nearly 44 years. Then the case ended with a bang. Early on the morning of Oct. 13, 1974, a security guard found the body of 19-year-old Arlis Perry underneath a pew inside the historic church at the heart of Stanford's campus. The deeply religious wife of a Stanford sophomore, Arlis had gone to pray in the sanctuary late the night before.

Step past the flashing lights into the true scene of the crime with this frank, unflinching, and unforgettable account of life as a crime scene investigator. Whether explaining rigor mortis or the art of fingerprinting a stiff corpse on the side of the road, Dana Kollmann details her true, unvarnished experiences as a CSI for the Baltimore County Police Department.

The Vanishing Act brings together the first three gripping installments of the Shadows of the Past series, diving deep into the lives, disappearances, and legacies of three extraordinary women. Each case reveals the darker side of history, where secrets, scandals, and societal pressures converge into captivating mysteries that remain unsolved to this day.

They blended in. They raised families, held steady jobs, and hid in plain sight. But behind the mask of normalcy, they were monsters—responsible for decades of terror, pain, and death. Every Killer Leaves A Trace is a chilling narrative nonfiction thriller that exposes moments that led to the shocking unmasking and ultimate capture of twenty-six of America’s most elusive killers. From accidental slips to cutting-edge forensic breakthroughs, each chapter reveals how justice caught up with murderers who thought they’d never be found.

From true crime legend Ann Rule comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soon—and a determined mother’s eleven-year crusade to clear her daughter’s name. It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was getting ready to travel from...

This is not CSI. What you encounter as a true bomb detective-or "Bomb Doctor," as some in the FBI call me-are fields of twisted metal containing soot-covered fragments intermingled with human remains. You have carnage and chaos. As you wade into that sea of wailing sirens and screaming survivors awash with the stench of diesel fuel and decaying bodies, your job is to ferret out forensic clues in a type of macabre scavenger hunt to ultimately reconstruct the scene and the explosive device and determine what happened and what the bomb looked like before it was torn asunder.

This book will cover DNA links to convictions and acquittals. The long link of DNA evidence is vast. That many convictions were overturned because of DNA evidence or that many years after convictions individuals were set free. Privacy issues are also in question. Many countries have different regulations due to new laws surrounding the length of time that DNA is stored. The varying strands of this innovative forensic evidence collection is also in jeopardy.

Explore 7 of the most perplexing missing person cases in America’s history, from small-town mysteries to disappearances that made national headlines.

I "RETSMEDICINEREN" for fortæller Jørgen Lange Thomsen om hvordan enretsmediciner tænker. Han har bevaret et frisk og tænksomt syn på sit fag, og læseren bliver grundigt indført i den retsmedicinske verden og tankegang. Faget åbner sig på forunderlig vis, og sammen med forfatteren lever læseren sig ind i de afdødes liv og får fortalt om retsmedicinens væsen. Der er beretninger om bl.a. identifikation af døde efter 9/11 i New York i 2001 og Tsunamien i 2004 samt undersøgelse af bl.a. mordofre.

Retsmedicin er kendt fra både bøger og film - og ikke overraskende er det ofte et forvrænget billede, der viderebringes. I "En retsmediciner fortæller" tager en af Danmarks førende eksperter, Jørgen Lange Thomsen, læseren om bag facaden. Bogen giver et både barskt og realistisk billede af retsmedicinerens hverdag. En hverdag fyldt med død, tortur og ødlæggelse.

Et barskt og realistisk billede af en retsmediciners hverdag som involverer dødsfald, vold, misbrug, sorg og forbrydelser. Jørgen Lange Thomsen fortæller underholdende og personligt om sit liv frem til jobbet som retsmediciner og om mange af de retsmedicinske sager, han selv har været involveret i, både i ind- og udland. Bogen afsluttes med et rystende kapitel fra Phuket om identifikationen af ofre efter tsunamien.