Cold Case Homicides: Practical Investigative Techniques, Second Edition / Edition 2

by R. H. Walton

Overview

This book, now in its second edition, is the first and most exhaustive text covering the still growing popularity of cold case investigations which locate perpetrators and free the innocent. The new edition adds approximately 80 pages of content, including material on clandestine graves and investigating cold gang cases. The book merges theory with practice through the use of case histories, photographs, illustrations and checklists that convey essential, fundamental concepts while providing a strong, practical basis for the investigative process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781482237900
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/25/2017
Series:	Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	660
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

R.H. Walton is Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice Program at Utah State University Eastern.

Table of Contents

Dedication

 

Acknowledgements

 

Preface

 

Introduction

Chapter One: The Cold Case Problem

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Chapter Two: Case File Review

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Chapter Three: Read the Book: Learn the Case

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Chapter Four: Investigation

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Chapter Five: Long Term Missing Persons and No-Body Homicides

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Chapter Six: Prosecution of Cold Cases

Ann Marie Schubert

Chapter Seven: Vicap, Hits, and TracKRS

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Chapter Eight: Criminal Justice Information Services and NCIC

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Chapter Nine: Interviewing Senior Citizens

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Chapter Ten: Death Certificate, Obituary and Coroner’s Inquest

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Chapter Eleven: Cold Case Investigation Units

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Chapter Twelve: Media in Cold Case Investigation

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Chapter Thirteen: Friction Skin Impressions

Edward Palma

Chapter Fourteen: Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems

Peter Komarinski

Chapter Fifteen: From Serology to DNA in Cold Case Investigations

Mike Grubb

Chapter Sixteen: Trace Evidence in Cold Case Investigations

Jay Henry

Chapter Seventeen: National Missing and Unidentified Persons Database

Thomas Dibase and R.H. Walton

Chapter Eighteen: Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)

Connie Milton

Chapter Ninteen: National Integrated Ballistic Information Network

Katharine Dyer

Chapter Twenty: Forensic Anthropology in Cold Cases

Madeline Hinkes

Chapter Twenty-One: Forensic Dentistry in Cold Cases

Norman Sperber and Anthony R. Cardoza

Chapter Twenty-Two: Forensic Exhumation

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Chapter Twenty-Three: Criminal Investigative Analysis in Cold Case Investigations

Sharon Pagaling Hagan

Chapter Twenty-Four: Warming Up with Wiretaps

Robert P. Hickey

Chapter Twenty-Five: Bloodstain Pattern Analysis in Homicide Cold Case Investigations

Tom Bevel

Chapter Twenty-Six: Blood Enhancement

Rod Englert

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Forensic Document Examination

Marie Durina

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Forensic Art in Cold Cases

Karen Taylor

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Polygraph in Cold Cases

Paul Redden

Chapter Thirty: Geographic Profiling in Cold Cases

Kim Rossmo

Chapter Thirty-One: ‘Who You Know’: Resources in Cold Case Investigations

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Concluding Thoughts

Index