A review by cheryl6of8
The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes by Colin Evans

3.0

One of many books I picked up at a charity book sale to give away. I could not resist reading it first. For a book 35 years old, most of this holds up well. I know that some of the fiber evidence (particularly hair analysis) has been shown to be less than accurate, but the cases are all interesting. A couple of them are controversial (the Fatal Vision case and Steven Truscott and Hauptmann) but a lot of them are ones I was unfamiliar with -- and I follow a lot of true crime in multiple formats. The things that interest me are what would be added now that DNA and computers are so much more prominent in the field. I also learned a couple of things -- like the types of bomb testing done on luggage at the airport and the fact that most of the time you can tell if a blood sample came from a male or a female.