Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint the Time of Death

Author:
Jessica Snyder Sachs
Publisher:
Perseus Publishing
Reviewed in:
Fall 2001
Category:

An Alpharetta, Ga., freelance, Snyder Sachs describes the array of new high-tech devices and tests forensic pathologists are doing to answer the question that has always plagued the justice system in the absence of credible witnesses — when did the victim die? Sachs reveals how the hot new science of "forensic ecology" is able to solve some crimes.