| Description |
225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Beginnings -- 2. The Bugs on the body -- 3. The Pigs' tale -- 4. Patterns of succession -- 6. Cover-ups and concealments -- 7. Predators -- 8. Air, fire, and water -- 9. Drugs and toxins -- 10. Coping -- 11. Testifying -- 12. Spreading the word -- Epilogue: summing up |
| Summary |
"Using actual cases on which he has consulted, Goff shows show knowledge of insects and their habits allows forensic entomologists to furnish investigators with crucial evidence about crimes. Even when a body has been reduced to a skeleton, insect evidence can often provide the only available estimate of the postmortem interval, or time elapsed since death as well as clues to whether the body has been moved from the original crime scene and whether drugs have contributed to the death."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Forensic entomology.
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| LC no. |
99058194 |
| ISBN |
0674002202 alkaline paper |
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