Kingfisher Knowledge: Forensics
by By Platt, Richard and Reichs, Kathy (FRW)
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction , Law & Crime

Explore the crime lab with Forensics and discover how detectives use science to solve crimes. From the scene of the crime to a criminal's conviction, discover how the marks of blood, footprints, and fingerprints can lead the police to criminals. Find out how specialists can match trace evidence, such as a single hair found on a victim, to the murderer. Learn how famous crimes were solved and,like a true detective, find out whether it was arson, poison,or murder.From the scene of the crime to a criminal's conviction, the reader is invited into the crime lab to learn how detectives use forensics--such as blood, footprints, and fingerprints--to catch perpetrators and solve crimes.