The Mammoth Book of Murder and Science

by Wilkes, Roger

• ISBN13: 9780786707898
• ISBN10: 0786707895
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-21
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

A compelling true-crime collection of infamous murder cases cracked by forensic know-how. In the tradition of the popular top-sellers The Mammoth Book of True Crime and The Mammoth Book of Unsolved Crime, this volume offers an absorbing anthology of thirty actual murder cases in which forensic evidence ensured criminal justice - from the blood evidence in the murder trial of Dr. Sam Sheppard, the case that inspired the TV series The Fugitive, to the bite marks on the daughter of Lindy Chamberlain, the Australian woman who claimed her child had been abducted by a dingo, to the handwriting that convicted Texas attorney Albert T. Patrick of a millionaire businessman's murder.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
Roger Wilkes
Who Killed Bambi? (Jeremy Bamber, 1985)	7	(15)
Jim Shelley
The Media of Kew Gardens Hills (Alice Crimmins, 1965)	22	(20)
Albert Borowitz
The Love Philtre (Mary Blandy, 1752)	42	(29)
Horace Bleackley
Physicians, Heal Yourselves (Dr Thomas Smethurst, 1859)	71	(10)
Leslie Hale
The Hilldrop Crescent Mystery (Hawley Harvey Crippen, 1910)	81	(14)
Philip Willcox
The Dingo Baby Case (Lindy Chamberlain, 1980)	95	(8)
Colin Wilson
Did the Evidence Fit the Crime? (Bruno Hauptmann, 1936)	103	(18)
Tom Zito
The Man Who Could Read Thoughts (Vernon Booher, 1928)	121	(12)
Mike Gier
Unguarded Moment (Colin Pitchfork, 1986)	133	(13)
Joseph Wambaugh
The Firm of Patrick & Jones (Albert T. Patrick, 1900)	146	(40)
Edmund Pearson
The Birmingham Six (Paddy Hill and others, 1974)	186	(21)
Ludovic Kennedy
The Mystery of the Flying Blood (Dr Sam Sheppard, 1954	207	(15)
Leo Grex
Murder in Deptford (The Stratton Brothers, 1905)	222	(10)
Jurgen Thorwald
The Coppolino Case (Dr Carl Coppolino, 1965)	232	(16)
James A. Brussel
Murder by Accident (Richard Brinkley, 1907)	248	(8)
C. Ainsworth Mitchell
The Vampire Rapist (Wayne Boden, 1971)	256	(15)
Clifford L. Linedecker
Conflict of Evidence (Sidney Fox, 1930)	271	(17)
Sydney Smith
`Act of Mercy' (Dr Hermann Sander, 1949)	288	(22)
David Rowan
The Acid-Bath Virtuoso (John George Haigh, 1949)	310	(28)
Edgar Lustgarten
`If -' (Emile Gourbin, 1912)	338	(11)
George Dilnot
A Riddle of Maggots (William Brittle, 1965)	349	(11)
Keith Simpson
A Welsh Mummy (Sarah Jane Harvey, 1960)	360	(17)
Robert Jackson
A Ray of Sunlight Unmasks a Killer (William Henry Podomre, 1930)	377	(13)
Tom Tullett
The Poisoner (Kenneth Barlow, 1957)	390	(8)
Percy Hoskins
The Jekyll and Hyde of New York (Dr Arthur Waite, 1916)	398	(16)
John Laurence
The Talking Skull (Harry Dobkin, 1942)	414	(18)
Nigel Morland
The Jigsaw Murder Case (Dr Buck Ruxton, 1935)	432	(16)
Jonathan Goodman
A Case of `Hideous Ferocity' (Peter Griffiths, 1948)	448	(13)
Norman Lucas
Dr Parkman Takes a Walk (Professor John Webster, 1849)	461	(20)
Cleveland Amory
The Murderer Who Got Away With It (John Donald Merrett, 1926)	481	(16)
Macdonald Hastings
Picture a Murderer (Edwin Bush, 1961)	497	(10)
Richard Jackson
The Biter Bit (Gordon Hay, 1968)	507	(24)
George Saunders
Acknowledgments and Sources	531