Christie, Hanratty, The Krays … murderers haunt the mind. We read about them in the press with horrified curiosity and, if we’re lucky, this is as close as we get. But Home Office Pathologise Keith Simpson spent forty years in the very midst of murder. This is his autobiography. The late Professor Keith Simpson became the first Professor of Forensic Medicine at London University and lectured on the subject to other doctors, lawyers, police officers and magistrates at home and all over the world. He pioneered forensic dentistry, and for the first time identified a suspected murderer by teeth marks left on the victim’s body. He was responsible for the first successful ‘battered baby’ prosecution in England, and perhaps one of his greatest contributions has been to save the lives of countless babies by disseminating information on the syndrome and getting it recognized and controlled. This is the bestselling autobiography of the man who was always at the scene of the crime. In describing his celebrated investigations he spares his readers none of the chilling details: the whip-marks, the maggots, the skeletal remains, which proved the innocence of so many men and women…and sent so many more to the gallows.
ISBN: | 9780007291274 |
Publication date: | 1st July 2008 |
Author: | Prof. Keith Simpson |
Publisher: | HarperCollins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 424 pages |
Genres: |
True crime: serial killers and murderers Forensic medicine Forensic science Victimology and victims of crime Dentistry specialities Autobiography: science, technology and medicine Medicolegal issues Criminal or forensic psychology Medical profession |