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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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Autor principal: Goff, M. Lee (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
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  • 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