A Fly for the Prosecution
Subtitle: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: May 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780674002203
Subjects: Arachnids; Criminal investigation & detection; Forensic Science; Insects (entomology); Life Sciences - Zoology - Entomology; Criminal Evidence And Analysis; Entomology; Legal Reference / Law Profession; True Crime; Murder - General; Law / Forensic Science; Evidence; Forensic entomology
Description: "Using actual cases on which he has consulted, Goff shows show knowledge of insects and their habits allows forensic entomologists to furnish investigators with crucial evidence about crimes. Even when a body has been reduced to a skeleton, insect evidence can often provide the only available estimate of the postmortem interval, or time elapsed since death as well as clues to whether the body has been moved from the original crime scene and whether drugs have contributed to the death."--BOOK JACKET.