This fascinating book describes the development of forensics from the nineteenth century to the present. Cases are classified by 15 forensic types then arranged chronologically. Features riveting stories of how forensic experts were able to identify a person with only one one thousandth of her body parts the dramatic tale of how a psychological profile helped catch a dangerous criminal who drank his victim s blood and numerous more narratives of how science triumphed to bring the guilty to justice and free the innocent.