The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help serve justice using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces. This book draws on crime novelist McDermid's own interviews and firsthand experience on scene with top forensic scientists. Along the way, McDermid discovers...

After David Kim (John Cho)'s 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop. In a hyper-modern thriller told via the technology devices we use every day to communicate, David must trace his daughter's digital footprints before...

"Exploring Careers in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics serves as a career guide, providing information about education, certifications, and tools to help those making career decisions within the cybersecurity field"--

Hombres y mujeres en el mundo se apasionan, por lo que creen prerrogativa de las fuerzas policiales; y es verdad que este trabajo tan particular, como lo es la investigación criminal, pertenece únicamente a lo que se conoce como Policía Científica. Sin embargo, aparte de dichos funcionarios, estaría el fascinante mundo paralelo de los Peritos; que con sus conocimientos, pueden ir más allá, de un simple trabajo de rutina. La muerte, generalmente...

THE FASCINATING WORLD OF FORENSIC SCIENCE AND HOW IT HELPED SOLVE MORE THAN 100 TRUE CRIMES.

"Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother condemned? On an April night in 1989, three small children perished in a Los Angeles apartment fire. Their young mother, Jo Ann Parks, escaped unharmed, the sole survivor and only eyewitness. Though they at first believed the fire had been a tragic accident, forensic fire investigators soon uncovered evidence that Parks had sabotaged wiring, set several fires herself, and even barricaded...

Enter the "fascinating" and frightening world of modern forensic psychology as experienced by one of the most respected practitioners in the field today. At the heart of countless crimes lie the mysteries of the human mind. In this eye-opening book, Dr. Cheryl Paradis draws back the curtain on the fascinating world of forensic psychology, and revisits the most notorious and puzzling cases she has handled in her multifaceted career. Her riveting,...

Tras casi veinticuatro años de ocupación por parte de Indonesia, Timor Oriental fue escenario de una violencia sistemática y generalizada, que se desencadenó a raíz del referendo por la independencia promovido por la ONU en 1999. Partiendo de las investigaciones adelantadas por el Equipo Forense de Serious Crimes Investigation Team (SCIT) de la United Nations Mission in Timor (UNMIT) entre los años 2010 y 2013, esta obra relata los aportes de...

On Father's Day of 2005, Robert Farquharson was driving his three sons Jai, Tyler and Bailey aged 10, 7 and 2 years, to their mother´s house. His car ran off the road and into a dam. Whilst Farquharson survived, the three boys went down with the car and drowned. Murder!, they said. How could anyone be that evil?, they asked. Farquharson was tried and convicted of murdering his three sons, but won an appeal. He was again tried and again convicted....

"In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder"-- "For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no recent book that tells this remarkable story--in which Conan Doyle becomes a real-life detective on an actual murder case. In [this book], Margalit Fox takes us...