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Bass, Bill and Jefferson, Jon, Death's acre: inside the legendary forensic lab the Body Farm where the dead do tell tales

2003 In this memoir, Bass, a premier forensic anthropologist, recounts how a life spent studying dead bodies led to the creation of "The Anthropology Research Facility" (aka the Body Farm), a plot of land near the University of Tennessee Medical Center where Bass and his colleagues monitor the decomposition of human corpses in various environments in order to help solve crime.
614.1 B2938d

Cea, Robert, No lights, no sirens: the corruption and redemption of an inner city cop

(2005) Cea, a television writer who recently sold three network pilots, chronicles his former career as a NYPD officer during the 1980s, from his bushy-tailed academy stint to his soul-destroying ordeal in the "Badlands" of Brooklyn.
363.2092 C32n

Cummins, Jeanine, A rip in Heaven: a memoir of murder and its aftermath

2004) On the night of April 4, 1991, during a spring-break family vacation to St. Louis, Cummins's 19-year-old brother, Tom, and his two female cousins were allegedly attacked while walking on the abandoned Old Chain of Rocks Bridge. Tom survived; the girls did not. Was Tom a victim or the perpetrator?
364.152 C9128r

Finkel, Michael, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa

(2005) In True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa, disgraced New York Times writer Michael Finkel recounts the story of the murderer who assumed his identity and examines the reasons for his own fall from journalistic grace, in a memoir that is perceptive and utterly gripping.
070.92 F4957t

Koff, Clea, The bone woman: a forensic anthropologist's search for truth in the mass graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo

(2004) Recounts seven important forensic fact-finding missions for the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal in which the author, a Berkeley forensic anthropology graduate student, endured harrowing conditions while she investigated genocidal killings.
364.151 K821b 2004

Lowenthal, Gary T., Down and dirty justice: a chilling journey into the dark world of crime and criminal courts

(2003) In the best tradition of investigative journalism, Lowenthal abandons the cushy life of a law professor to discover firsthand how today's urban criminal court system works.
345.7917305 L952d

Penzler, Otto (Editor), Best American crime writing 2004

(2004) These annual anthologies consistently offer the most compelling true crime writing from our most literate magazine writers like Jon Krakauer, Charles Bowden, James Ellroy, and Scott Turow. Great reading for airplane trips, waiting rooms, long lines…
364.973 B4643

Rule, Ann, Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer, America's Deadliest Serial Murderer

(2004) Not only is she one of the more successful true-crime authors, but for nearly 20 years, veteran crime reporter Rule was exceptionally close to this case, reporting on it for a Seattle newspaper, preparing a long-delayed book on the subject, and living within a few blocks of the strip of highway where most of Gary Ridgeway's victims were abducted.
364.1523 R861g

Till-Mobley, Mamie, Death of Innocence

(2003) A memoir by the mother of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old black teenager whose 1955 kidnapping and murder (because he allegedly whistled at a white woman) ignited the civil rights movement, describes her feelings about the crime, her despair over the acquittal of the two white accused killers, and her personal struggle to overcome her grief to become a teacher and source of inspiration for hundreds of children.
364.1523097 T46d

Viviano, Frank, Blood washes blood: a true story of love, murder, and redemption under the Sicilian sun

(2001) The author journeys back into his own family's past to investigate the century-old murder of his great-great-grandfather, a revolutionary and legendary bandit known as "the Monk," and the conspiracy of silence that followed the crime.
364.1523 V838b

Weiss, Philip, American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps

(2004) Relates the events surrounding the 1975 murder of Peace Corps volunteer Deborah Gardner, describing her free-spirited nature, stabbing death at the hands of an obsessed fellow volunteer, the organization's efforts to cover up the case, and the killer's escape from justice.
364.1523099 W4367a

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