Death Investigations

The book is accessible to all levels of investigators, regardless of academic background, and allows readers to develop a fundamental understanding of the underlying scientific principles behind bloodstain pattern evidence.

This book explains the concepts and principles of death investigation established by governments, and outlines the legal and administrative steps that must be taken throughout the case.

If you want to know more about the art and science of investigations, go to the source the professionals use to catch real killers: Death Investigator’s Handbook.

If you want to know more about the art and science of crime-scene processing, forensic evaluations and investigative techniques, go to the source that professionals use to catch real killers.

In this groundbreaking book, the authors "positional asphyxia" as a condition called Excited Delirium Syndrome, in which the normal physiological changes produced by violent activity culminate in sudden cardiac death, often in conjunction with the effects of a drug.

Written by the nation's foremost authority on gunshot wounds and forensic techniques as they relate to firearm injuries, this book provides critical information on gunshot wounds and the weapons and ammunition used to inflict them.

This book draws on the expertise of a forensic nurse and member of the CDC core team for the Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Investigation Reporting Form to provide medicolegal death investigators and law enforcement personnel with investigative techniques applicable to sudden unexpected infant deaths.

This book continues to provide sound and sober models, protocols, and procedures to handle the highly charged fall-out from officer involved shootings. Written by cops for cops, it is designed to address the needs of the agency, the rights of the employee, and the concerns of the public, and give law enforcement the policies and tools to properly investigate and document this high profile area.

This book is the most comprehensive handbook written on MBP, which is now considered an index factor in child abuse investigations and as a suspicion factor in the deaths of young children. It offers detailed insight into the dynamics of MBP abuse and the Munchausen offender.

Renowned for being THE definitive source of homicide investigation, this book is the recognized protocol used by investigative divisions of major police departments throughout the world. It is also the text used in most police academies, including the prestigious FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.