Table of Contents

Forensic pathologists from hell : bungled autopsies, bad calls, and blown cases
A question of credibility : bad reputations and the politics of death
The sudden infant death debate Dr. Roy Meadow, Munchausen syndrome by proxy and Meadow's law
Infants who can't breathe : illness or suffocation?
Swollen brains and broken bones : disease or infanticide?
Fingerprint identification : trouble in paradise
Fingerprints never lie : except in Scotland
Shoe print identification and foot morphology : the lay witness and the Cinderella analysis
Bite mark identification : do teeth leave prints?
Ear-mark identification : emerging science or bad evidence?
Expert versus expert : the handwriting wars in the Ramsey case
John Mark Karr : DNA Trumps the graphologists in the Ramsey case
Hair and fiber identification : the inexact science
DNA analysis : backlogs, sloppy work, and unqualified people
Bullet identification : FBI style overselling the science
The celebrity expert : Dr. Henry Lee

About the Author

Jim Fisher worked as a special agent, conducting criminal investigations for the FBI from 1966 to 1972. Later he taught criminal investigation, criminal law, and forensic science at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.

Reviews

"Well-written and captivating-a fine book." - Captain Robert L. Snow (author of Technology and Law Enforcement, Murder 101, Sex Crimes Investigation) "This scholarly and well-researched work shines a light on the dark side of forensic science to expose the enormous damage inflicted on the criminal justice system by rogue and dishonest forensic practitioners." - Richard Saferstein, (author of Criminalists: An Introduction to Forensic Science) "Well-written and captivating-a fine book." - Captain Robert L. Snow (author of Technology and Law Enforcement, Murder 101, Sex Crimes Investigation) "This scholarly and well-researched work shines a light on the dark side of forensic science to expose the enormous damage inflicted on the criminal justice system by rogue and dishonest forensic practitioners." - Richard Saferstein, (author of Criminalists: An Introduction to Forensic Science)