American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI -- Kate Winkler Dawson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/384453 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI Author: Kate Winkler Dawson Narrator: Kate Winkler Dawson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 11, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air ('Not since Devil in the White City has a book told such a harrowing tale'--Douglas Preston) comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century. Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books--sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-year career. Known as the 'American Sherlock Holmes,' Edward Oscar Heinrich was one of America's greatest--and first--forensic scientists, with an uncanny knack for finding clues, establishing evidence, and deducing answers with a skill that seemed almost supernatural. Heinrich was one of the nation's first expert witnesses, working in a time when the turmoil of Prohibition led to sensationalized crime reporting and only a small, systematic study of evidence. However with his brilliance, and commanding presence in both the courtroom and at crime scenes, Heinrich spearheaded the invention of a myriad of new forensic tools that police still use today, including blood spatter analysis, ballistics, lie-detector tests, and the use of fingerprints as courtroom evidence. His work, though not without its serious--some would say fatal--flaws, changed the course of American criminal investigation. Based on years of research and thousands of never-before-published primary source materials, American Sherlock captures the life of the man who pioneered the science our legal system now relies upon--as well as the limits of those techniques and the very human experts who wield them.