Practical Homicide Investigation: Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques, Fourth Edition

Practical Homicide Investigation: Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques, Fourth Edition, by Vernon J. Geberth. Combining detailed techniques with instructive case studies, the best-selling Practical Homicide Investigation stresses the basics and provides patterns on which to build a foundation for a prosecutable case. This fourth edition presents the latest information on DNA analysis and the latest assessment of crime scene reconstruction principles. It offers updated information on crime scene processing, including new blood enhancement reagents and current constitutional law, and contains new serial murder cases and a revised chapter on profiling, also with a new case. All of the illustrations are now presented in full color, including new medical-legal drawings for instruction and courtroom testimony.