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Hard Evidence: How Detectives Inside the FBI's Sci-Crime Lab have Helped Solve America's Toughest Cases
Hard Evidence How Detectives Inside the FBI's SciCrime Lab have Helped Solve America's Toughest Cases Author:David Fisher From Publishers Weekly: — True-crime fans will savor this room-by-room, machine-by-machine tour of the FBI Criminal Laboratory in Washington, D.C., perhaps the world's best forensics department. Fisher (Killer) introduces readers to units that involve chemistry (with a special emphasis on toxicology), explosives, hairs and fibers, fingerprints an... more »d DNA analysis, material analysis, documents, firearms, photography, video enhancement and polygraphy. Included are details of the ballistic investigations of the assassination of John Kennedy, the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, the murder of Martin Luther King, and the World Trade Center bombing. Readers will be astounded by the abilities of the high-technology equipment and the talents of the investigators who staff this extraordinary sci-crime lab.
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Major advances in forensic science, such as DNA analysis, have taken place in the recent past. With the interested lay reader in mind, Washington Post journalist Fisher describes the work of the FBI Crime Laboratory regarding explosives, firearms, hairs and fibers, toxicology, etc.and how it has been used to solve problematic cases. Writing with the FBI's cooperation, Fisher tends to accept at face value their judgments in some controversial cases: Sacco and Vanzetti, Alger Hiss, the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, and the JFK assassination. Nevertheless, his enthusiasm for the progress in processing the faintest crime-scene clues is not misplaced. While some detailed accounts of forensic procedures can be soporific, they also pinpoint guilt or innocence previously undetectable. Recommended for larger popular crime collections.« less