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Author: William R. Maples
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A renowned bone scientist recounts his strangest and most horrifying investigations--from baffling cases of dismemberment to the remains of the family of Czar Nicholas II to traces of Vietnam MIAs--and describes his satisfaction in bringing killers to justice.
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- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd (September 21, 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0285632787
- ISBN-13: 978-0285632783
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist Free Download
For nearly a century the science of forensics has grown from a barely understood art to a marvel of modern science. From development of finger printing in the early 1900's, to DNA gene matching of today, forensic pathology and anthropology have blossomed into the law's best weapons against criminals that stalk our world. In `Dead Men Do Tell Tales' we enter the world of Dr. William Maples, PhD of the C A Pound Human Identification Center in Gainesville, Florida-an often brutal and ghoulish realm of dismembered corpses, hastily torched cremains of hapless victims or those dumped in septic tanks to rot and putrify in the other detritus of man's remains. Dr. Maples' own study is the field of forensic anthropology-the study of the human skeleton, and this man's expertise in that field has cemented my interest in amateur study of forensics. Told in the first person, Maples comes across as brilliant and personable, if a little supremely confident in his own abilities as an investigator. And like Stephen Hawking's `A Brief History of Time', isn't afraid to admit when he has erred. Where the book shines, aside from its plethora of information, is in the presentation of that information-Maples never uses terms that he doesn't explain, knowing full well that the book is going to be read more by laymen like me than a peer within the profession. So do not expect detailed treatises on anatomy, pathology or pages of chemical breakdowns. Instead, Maples presents an easy to understand work that is surprising in its level of detail, and a credit to himself and his co-author, Michael Browning, for making it understandable.
Though it is a book on anthropology, one cannot write about one subject without at least touch on the pathology end, since the two are intimately related.