Silent Witness
Subtitle: How Forensic Anthropology Is Used to Solve the World's Toughest Crimes
Contributors: Cyril Wecht (Foreword, Contributor)
Publisher: Firefly Books
Published: September 7, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781552976258
Subjects: Medical anthropology; True Crime; Forensic Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Law; Science & Technology; General; Forensic anthropology; Anthropology - Physical; Criminal investigation.; True Crime / General; Anthropologie legale; Criminal investigation; Criminalistique; Forensic sciences
First sentence: The skills of forensic anthropologists are required in a myriad of situations in which human remains need to be identified.
Table of contents: title: Forensic anthropology and other sciences. Case study 1 : Dr. John Webster -- Case study 2 : Adolph Louis Luetgert  -- Case study 3 : Eugene Aram -- Bones do talk. Case study 4 : John G. Haigh -- Case study 5 : ELmer McCurdy -- Case study 6 : Dr. Carl Weiss -- Exhumations and other stories. Case study 7 : Ernesto “Che” Guevara -- Case study 8 : Jeffrey Dahmer -- Case study 9 : Thomas Luther -- Case study 10 : Zachary Taylor -- Surface bodies : the outdoor setting.  Case study 11 : Jeffrey Dahmer -- Case study 12 : Green River Killer -- Case study 13 : Mark S. Putnam -- Case study 14 : The missing restaurateur -- Altered remains - hiding identities. Case study 15 : Buck Walker -- Case study 16 : James S. Vlassakis -- Case study 17 : Blake and Davis -- Case study 18 : Dr. Buck Ruxton -- Air disasters. Case study 19 : Arrow Airlines Charter -- Case study 20 : ValuJet Flight 592 -- Case study 21 : American Airlines Flight 191 -- Fires and explosives. Case study 22 : Timothy McVeigh -- Case study 23 : The Hinton Rail collision -- Case study 24 : David Koresh -- Case study 25 : Cremated bodies -- Human rights. Case study 26 : Genocide -- Case study 27 : The massacres -- Case study 28 : The dirty war -- Case study 29 : The death caravans.