Tainting evidence
Subtitle: inside the scandals at the FBI crime lab
By: John F. Kelly, Phillip K. Wearne.
Contributors: Wearne, Phillip.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: FBI Laboratory; Crime laboratories -- United States; Criminal investigation -- United States; Criminal investigation -- United States -- Case studies
Description: With evidence culled from thousands of pages of FBI memos, lab reports, internal investigations and dozens of interviews, including exclusive conversations with lab chemist Frederic Whitehurst, the FBI's first whistleblower, authors John Kelly and Phillip Wearne demonstrate how the FBI lab has compromised the forensic work in some of the biggest cases of the century: the Oklahoma City bombing, the Unabomber case, the O. J. Simpson prosecution and the World Trade Center explosion.

Hundreds of criminal cases may have to be reopened. Tainting Evidence shows that while always denying it, the FBI was well aware of the inadequacies of its lab; how forensic science can be used to hinder rather than help the search for truth; how the FBI's famed investigators can never be trusted to investigate themselves.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-340) and index.