The Evidence Never Lies: The Casebook of a Modern Sherlock Holmes
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- Synopsis
- [from inside flaps] "He has been called the Isaac Newton of ballistics, the Magellan of fingerprints, the Galileo of blood. He is Herbert Leon MacDonell and, in more than 200 criminal cases, he has proved himself an expert in using the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology to reconstruct the crime and pin the criminal. Colorful, crusty, and iconoclastic, Herbert MacDonell has been called upon to offer analysis and testimony in some of the past two decades' most public murders—including the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. He has been involved in such celebrated cases as that of Jean Harris, Joann Chesimard, and Buddy Jacobson. MacDonell is the author of Bloodstain Pattern Interpretation, the definitive text on bloodstains, and has been instrumental in gaining acceptance for such evidence in the courts. His invention of the MAGNA-Brush revolutionized fingerprint work, increasing the types of surfaces from which prints could be lifted and making it possible for nonexperts to do the job. Now, Alfred Allan Lewis recounts seven of MacDonell's most intriguing cases. With only a scrap of wood, a hunk of wadding, and his own gun tests, MacDonell pieces together proof of the innocence of a young man accused of murdering his hunting companion; solely on the basis of blood smears and spatters, MacDonell pins the guilt for a set of gruesome murders on the scion of a prominent southern family; at a distance of three thousand miles from the scene of the crime and with the police stymied by the absence of a corpse, MacDonell gives proof positive that a murder has indeed occurred—and identifies the killer; in less than a day, MacDonell minutely reconstructs all the details of the infamous 1969 Black Panther shoot-out in Chicago—and pinpoints responsibility for the bloodbath on the police. Here, then, are true crime dramas played out to the puzzle-solving perfection that one would expect from a modern-day Sherlock Holmes."
- Copyright:
- 1984
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 274 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780030718564
- Publisher:
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Date of Addition:
- 03/30/17
- Copyrighted By:
- Alfred Allan Lewis and Herbert Leon MacDonell
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Mystery and Thrillers
- Submitted By:
- Evan Reese
- Proofread By:
- Beverly Cory
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.