How to Solve a Murder: True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine

How to Solve a Murder: True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine

How to Solve a Murder: True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine

How to Solve a Murder: True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine

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Overview

As gripping as it is gruesome, How to Solve a Murder is a fascinating insight into the career of a forensic scientist told by experts in the field. Includes a foreword from Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780008404895
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 01/21/2021
Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 16 MB
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About the Author

Derek Tremain BSc (Hons) is Forensic Imaging Scientist & Managing Director Forensic Image Services. He began working at the age of 15 for Guy’s Hospital in its historic Gordon Museum then moved into the dedicated Forensic Department. Over the next 35 years, he experienced thousands of patterned injuries, and is recognised to be the UK’s leading experts in the area. Having created new histological techniques and analyse during the course of his work, Derek went on to found the UK’s first injury body mapping service for murder trials. Today, Derek acts as an independent consultant.

Pauline Tremain is a former Medical Sectary and is now Forensic Graphic Designer and Business Manager of Forensic Image Services. She joined Guy’s Hospital’s forensic department in 1981. Her interest and enthusiasm was quickly acknowledged by the pathologist team, who included her in their routine mortuary attendances, where she took notes on post-mortems.

Table of Contents

Foreword Dr Richard Shepherd ix

Preface xiii

Chapter 1 A Nightmarish Restoration of Identity 1

Chapter 2 Museum of the Macabre 8

Chapter 3 The Anatomy of Murder 20

Chapter 4 Body Parts 28

Chapter 5 Parties, Drugs and Alcohol 36

Chapter 6 Introduction to an Extraordinary Workplace 47

Chapter 7 First Encounters 57

Chapter 8 Suspicious Death 74

Chapter 9 Tales of the Unexpected 82

Chapter 10 Sperm Donor 123

Chapter 11 Death by Drowning 129

Chapter 12 Unearthing History 154

Chapter 13 Bombings 162

Chapter 14 Death by Misadventure 168

Chapter 15 The Trauma of Mass Disasters 172

Chapter 16 Armed and Dangerous 177

Chapter 17 Too Young to Die 186

Chapter 18 Mergers & Acquisitions 193

Chapter 19 Heart Attack 203

Chapter 20 National Injuries Database 208

Chapter 21 Patterned Injury Expert 214

Chapter 22 Definition of a Weapon 232

Chapter 23 Catching Rochdale's Ripper 240

Chapter 24 Irrefutable Evidence 244

Chapter 25 Injury Body Mapping 261

Chapter 26 Professional Reconnection 270

Chapter 27 Body Mapping in the Murder Trial 274

Chapter 28 Body Mapping in Wounding Scenarios 280

Chapter 29 Maintaining the Ethos 288

Acknowledgements 299

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