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Colin Evans has written for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, History magazine, and the medical journal Scope. The author of sixteen books on forensics and true crime, including Slaughter on a Snowy Morn and The Casebook of Forensics Detection, he lives near Bath, England.

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Pretty dull...almost all the doctors killed their wives, so not sensational.
 
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kwskultety | Jul 4, 2023 |
Until I picked up this book I had never heard of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, but in his day he was a household name.

Nowadays the forensic pathologist is commonplace in court and people are well aware of the general types of things that they can do with fingerprints, DNA analysis, projectiles and crime scene investigation. But at the turn of the 19th century the English were well behind their continental cousins with regards to ascertaining the facts behind murders and deaths of people.

Spilsbury was an imposing figure, around 6'2", and he brought to this new discipline a rigour and standard that no one else had had until that point.He was top of his game from four decades, and covered up to 300 cases in a year at times. He developed items like the murder bag that had all the necessary instrument in that a pathologist would need at a crime scene, and he kept detailed records of every case that he worked on.

When in court he explained the facts in clear and simply terms and was responsible for the convictions of many murderers. As his reputation grew he was involved with professional clashes with a couple of other up and coming pathologists. his work ethic meant that he was rarely at home, and in later years his marriage suffered. Towards the end of his life, he suffered a number of person tragedies before dying at the age of 70.
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PDCRead | 4 andere besprekingen | Apr 6, 2020 |
Enjoyed this collection of "true crimes" very much and the development of forensic investigation under Spilsbury. Imagine my surpise when one of the cases involved a family member, and the guilty party was the heir to the J.R. Reynolds tobacco fortune. Well written and interesting, and light on the deep science!
 
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dihiba | 4 andere besprekingen | Jan 23, 2020 |
This book is about the biggest miscarriage of justice in American history! It brings shame to some of the legal profession and politicians of the time and was the harbinger of ballistics and forensic science in America. Based of historical fact it tells the story of a somewhat slow witted farm hand , Goerge Stielow of German descent, who is accused and found guilty of the murder of his boss and his housekeeper in 1915, a difficult time as war with Germany was in full swing!
He was coerced into making a confession, by officials of the county, keen for a quick conviction to enhance their own political careers, evidence was hopelessly incorrect, witnesses were offered incentives to stretch the truth, and supposedly expert witnesses were absolutely useless at giving clear and accurate evidence.
The case went on for 3 long years, with Steilow, at risk of the electric chair for most of that time. He was reprieved 4 times! It cost Orleans County thousands of dollars and brought shame to many connected to the case.
A really fascinating read, which takes your breath away, sometimes with the injustices brought to the fore. Although having said that there are a few heroes in the telling of the story who refused to give up and allow an innocent man to go to the electric chair, and who realized that a new system of forensic science was what was needed to stop this happening again.
I can highly recommend this to anyone interested in not only history, but the legal profession and who enjoys a story of the little man winning in the end!!
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