From TV’s CSI to bestsellers by Patricia Cornwell and Kathy
Reichs, interest in forensics is at an all-time high. Now one of
our most respected forensic pathologists gives a behind-the-scenes
look at eleven of his most notorious cases, cracked by scientific
analysis and Sherlock Holmesian deduction.
As chief medical examiner of Rockland County, New York, for
almost thirty-five years, Dr. Frederick Zugibe literally wrote the
book on the subject—his widely used textbook is considered the
definitive text. Over the years he has pioneered countless
innovations, including the invention of a formula to soften
mummified fingers—enabling fingerprinting, and thus identification,
of a long-deceased victim. He has appeared as an expert hundreds of
times in the media and in the courtroom—and not once has a jury
failed to accept his testimony over opposing expert witnesses. And
now, in Dissecting Death, he has opened the door to the world of
forensic pathology in all its gruesome and fascinating
mystery.
Dr. Zugibe takes us through the process all good pathologists
follow, using eleven of his most challenging cases. With him, we
visit the often grisly—though sometimes shockingly banal—crime
scene. We inspect the body, palpate the wounds, search for clues in
the hair and skin. We employ ultraviolet light, strange measuring
devices, optical instruments. We see how a forensic pathologist
determines the hour of death, the type of weapon used, the killer’s
escape route. And then we enter the lab, the world of high-tech
criminal detection: DNA testing, fingerprinting, gunshot patterns,
dental patterns, X-rays.
But not every case ends in a conviction, and in a closing chapter
Dr. Zugibe examines some recent high-profile cases in which
blunders led to killers going free, either because the wrong party
was brought to trial or because the evidence presented didn’t do
the trick—including Jon-Benet Ramsey’s murder and, of course, the
O.J. Simpson trial.
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