A Fly for the Prosecution : How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes /
The forensic entomologist turns a dispassionate, analytic eye on scenes from which most people would recoil--human corpses in various stages of decay, usually the remains of people who have met a premature end through accident or mayhem. To Lee Goff and his fellow forensic entomologists, each body r...
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2009]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue: Honolulu, 1984
- 1 Beginnings
- 2 The Bugs on the Body
- 3 The Pigs' Tale
- 4 The First Flies
- 5 Patterns of Succession
- 6 Cover-ups and Concealments
- 7 Predators
- 8 Air, Fire, and Water
- 9 Drugs and Toxins
- 10 Coping
- 11 Testifying
- 12 Spreading the Word
- Epilogue: Summing Up
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index