Filled with intriguing true stories of criminals unmasked and packed with b/w illustrations and photographs, The Forensic Casebook draws on interviews with police and forensic scientists to uncover the vast and detailed underworkings of criminal investigation. Encyclopedic in scope, this riveting, authoritative book leaves no aspect of forensic science untouched, including securing a crime scene, identifying blood spatter patterns, fingerprinting, DNA printing, examining hairs and fibers, stages of body decay, computer crime and forensic photography and much more!