Table of Contents

1. Fragmentary Evidence: Jeffrey Dahmer's First Victim

2. From the Cradle to the Funeral Home: The Making of a Forensic Anthropologist

3. The Body Farm

4. The Cades Cove Murder

5. The Halloween Mummy

6. A Man and His Car

7. A Florida Hanging

8. A Question of Murder

9. Searching for a Friend's Grave

10. The Last Unknown

11. House of Horrors: The Poughkeepsie Serial Killer

12. The Fate of a Skyknight

13. A Leg in the Toilet Bowl

14. A Pearl Harbor Sailor

15. Out of the Blue

16. Ripley Would be Proud

17. A Shot in the Dark: The Death of Private Horner

18. Murder in Paradise: The Killing of Michael Rhett Hackmeyer

19. Thunderbolts and Liberators

20. The Bone Traders

About the Author

Dr Robert Mann is Deputy Scientific Director of the US Government's Central Identification Laboratory (CIL), the largest forensics laboratory in the world. Along with his extensive experience on the front line as a pathologist and anthropologist, he also spent several years at the Smithsonian Institute and has travelled to many of the world's battlefields examining and identifying the remains of American soldiers missing in action. He lives in Hawaii.

Miryam Ehrlich Williamson is the author or co-author of numerous books on health and technology, and has also published poems and short stories. She lives in western Massachusetts.