Forensic History: Crimes, Frauds, and Scandals (REQ) - Elizabeth A Murray Audiobook

Written by Elizabeth A Murray
Read by Elizabeth A Murray
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Forensic History: Crimes, Frauds, and Scandals by Professor Elizabeth A Murray PhD

The Great Courses 2015
Course No 1174
Length: 12hrs approx
Format: mp3, 128 kbps,
includes PDF Guidebook |

Modern history is filled with terrible crimes, baffling hoaxes, and seedy scandals. The infamous Jack the Ripper slayings. The alleged survival of Anastasia Romanov, the youngest daughter of the murdered Tsar. Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong’s public fall from grace. The Chicago Tylenol poisonings and the copycat crimes that followed.

Step into the world of forensic science and study the most fascinating historical crimes and mysteries from the last two centuries in Forensic History: Crimes, Frauds, and Scandals. Delivered by acclaimed Professor Elizabeth A. Murray of Mount St. Joseph University, a forensic anthropologist with nearly 30 years of experience in the field, these 24 lectures are a remarkable blend of storytelling and science—a whirlwind tour that takes you from the gas-lit streets of Victorian London to the mountains of Puerto Rico to small-town America. As you journey around the world and into the past, you’ll re-examine modern history’s great crimes and scandals using the tools and insights of forensic science. In doing so, you’ll learn how cutting-edge advancements in science and technology are applied to investigations and how to evaluate evidence and think like a forensic scientist.

Revisit Modern History’s Great Crimes
“If you like mysteries, and thinking about how to solve them, you’re going to love this course,” says Professor Murray. Using her extensive background in the field of forensic science and her skill at weaving riveting stories, Professor Murray invites you peer over the shoulders of criminal investigators as they examine some of the most famous crimes in history.

Lectures: 30” each
1. The Infamous Jack the Ripper
2. Analyzing the Black Dahlia Murder
3. Dissecting Hollywood Deaths
4. Decomposition and Confusing Interpretations
5. Lizzie Borden and the Menendez Brothers
6. The Tylenol Murders
7. Copycats and Hoaxes
8. Frauds and Forgeries
9. Blood Doping and Other Sports Scandals
10. Bad Boys of U.S. Politics
11. Criminals of the Wild, Wild West
12. Investigating Incredible Bank Heists
13. How Reliable Is Eyewitness Testimony?
14. The Truth behind False Confessions
15. Crooked Cops and Bad Convictions
16. Guilty until Proven Innocent
17. Political Assassinations
18. Mysteries of the Romanov Family
19. Forensics of Genocide
20. The Nazis and the Witch of Buchenwald
21. The Spies Have It
22. Motive and Kidnapping
23. Identification Matters
24. The Past, Present, and Future of Forensics