For most people, the forensic sciences are something reported on the news when a crime is solved through DNA
evidence, or used as a plot twist for television shows. But behind the crime-scene tape and the doors of the morgue
is a world never seen by the public. Now famed pathologist and medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden and award-winning
writer Marion Roach take readers into the laboratory, above the autopsy table, onto the witness stand and out in
the field to show how advances in forensic science can solve crucial questions in a criminal case, often with startling
accuracy.
Baden and Roach reveal how a key clue to the killer of Nicole Brown Simpson was lost when her body was moved to
the morgue, and why the JonBenet Ramsey case can never be solved. They show how no clue is too small to be analyzed
and no case too old to be reopened. Full of behind-the-scenes drama and surprising revelations, Dead Reckoning
is a fascinating look at how forensic science is changing the way we convict the guilty and free the innocent.
Table of Contents
Preface
One Autopsy
Two Blood
Three Witness
Four Inside
Five Henry
Six Scenes
Seven Bugs
Eight Exhumation
Nine Heads
Ten Junk
Eleven Reno