Her Brentwood home became a hotbed for homicide. But in the wake of intense public and media
attention, one saliant and hard truth was often overlooked: the murder of Nicole Brown-Simpson,
while brutal and heinous in its form, was just one of thousands of homicides committed during
that same year. Most escaped the scrutiny of public interest. Many never made it to trial, and
still others were dismissed as natural deaths-perfect crimes that remain forever unsolved. How,
then, do investigators solve a murder when the trail goes cold?Like mariners navigating without
landmarks under a starless night sky-lacking a reliable witness or smoking gun-they plot their
course through the clues by applying their own style of Dead Reckoning, reconstructing the crime
by disciplined observation, careful reasoning, and experience.Dead Reckoning: The Art of Forensic
Detection examines the applications of logic and science to decipher chaotic death scenes and
difficult cases, and to derive orderly explanations from their jumbled clues. The 10 case studies
in this book illustrate the powers of observation exercised in reading the signs, identifying them
as clues, and reasoning from them to the best explanation.For investigators, as well as forensic
pathologists, coroners, prosecutors, and defense attorneys, Dead Reckoning: The Art of Forensic
Detection stresses the importance of trusting your own observations even in the wake of
contradictory evidence

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