Written on the skin : an Australian forensic casebook / Liz Porter
- Bib ID:
- 3965180
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Porter, Liz, 1951-
- Description:
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- [Sydney] : Pan Macmillan, 2007
- 405 p. ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780330423342
- Summary:
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A crime scene investigator notes the tiny indentations on the fragments of a tin can identified at a bomb site. After months of testing he is able to match them to the can opener that made them - and lead police to the bomb-maker who used it. A forensic dentist documents the marks in chewing gum dropped by a thief during a burglary and matches them to the teeth of the suspect. A forensic physician examines an abused child, 'reading' the terrible alphabet that fists and weapons write on the skin and identifying a mother's hairbrush as the source of the 'tramline bruising' on her daughter's leg. Liz Porter's riveting casebook shows how forensic investigators - including pathologists, chemists, entomologists, DNA specialists and document examiners - have used their specialist knowledge to identify victims, catch perpetrators, exonerate innocent suspects and solve dozens of crimes and mysteries.
- Notes:
- includes index.
- Subject:
- Forensic sciences -- Australia
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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