HARD EVIDENCE How Detectives Inside the FBI's Sci-Crime Lab Have Helped Solve America's Toughest Cases

Paperback. A baby is dying and no one knows why. Several hairs are taken from the head of the mayor of a major city - has he been using cocaine? An airplane carrying 16 parachutists crashes into the ground. Mechanical failure...or murder? The FBI's sci-crime lab in Washington, D.C. has been called the world's best forensics department. Using DNA, special photography, video enhancement, chemical analysis, X-rays, and even superglue, it has cracked the baffling cases no one else could. Now the author shows how it was done, having had unprecedented access to the lab, and takes readers behind the scenes for the amazing real-life detective work that helped to catch the most notorious criminals of the time. Told by the agents who actually conducted the investigations, you'll get the inside story on - The hunt for the Unabomber; the "pristine bullet" in the Kennedy assassination; the thumbnail-size piece of plastic that led to the Pan Am flight 103 bombers; the mysterious green specks that nabbed the woman putting cyanide in Excedrin - and more. With Index. 401pp. mass market p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.