| Title: | Crime and Science: The New Frontier in Criminology, 2nd ed. |
| Author(s): | Jürgen Thorwald |
| Publisher: |
A Harvest Book Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., New York |
| Copyright: | © 1966 by Droemersche Verlagsanstalt AG Zürich |
| ISBN: |
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-623050-6 ISBN-10: 0-15-623050-X |
| Library of Congress: | 67-20323 |
Contents
I At the Limits of Detectability: Forensic Serology 1-5 The death of Lucie Berlin. The identification of blood. 3 6-7 Karl Landsteiner. Agglutination and blood groups. The Lattes test. 31 8-9 The murder of Helmuth Daube. Advances in serology. 45 10-12 Holzer and other scientists. The Mair case. The discovery of new blood groups. 64 13 The case of Pamela Coventry. Scientific criminology in England. 85 14 The murder of Walter Dinivan. Blood groups in saliva. 95 15 The case of Alice Persico. Serology in New York. - Alexander S. Wiener. 105 16 The Düsseldorf murders. Misleading bloodstains. 117 17-21 The Sheppard case. Samuel R. Geroer and Paul L. Kirk. The discovery of blood factors. 129 22-27 The Jaccoud case. Swiss forensic medicine. New paths in serology. The remarkable Erik Undritz. 162 28-30 Lina Lindorfer’s disappearance. Agar-gel and mixed agglutination. Coombs and Kind. The prospects for serology. 208 II Clues in the Dust: Forensic Chemistry and Biology 1 Sherlock Holmes and Hans Gross. 233 2-3 Margarethe Filbert’s walk in the woods. Georg Popp. The problem of hair clues. 235 4-7 Germaine Bichon. Animal and human hair. Balthazard. 252 8 Edmond Locard’s dream. The vacuum cleaner in criminology. The telephone wire thieves. 280 9-12 The package in the Bois de Boulogne. Edmond Bayle. Hubris and sudden death. 292 13 Vera Page. The man with the injured finger. Trail of a bandage. 315 14 Death on Brook Vale bridge. Bandages once more. Mass-produced textiles and synthetic fibers. 325 15-18 The plane crash on Cap Tourmente. Albert Guay and his mistress. Problems of explosives. The accomplices. The spread of scientific criminology. 334 19-21 The Thorne kidnaping. One out of 5000 Fords. The blanket. Pink mortar and two kinds of cypress. Tracking down the culprit. 359 22 Max Frei-Sulzer. New instruments, new fibers. 382 23-25 The death of Maria Flosky. The search for betraying fibers. The case against Anton Flittner. 388 26-30 Atomic energy in criminology. Gaetane Bouchard’s last hours. The man in the green Pontiac. Kerr and hair analysis. Trace elements in hair. Neutron 408 activation analysis. Jervis and Perkons. 31-33 The Coolidge case. Micro traces on clothes and car. Pro and Hoffman undertake neutron activation analysis. Jervis testifies for the defense. NAA in 1966: limits and potentialities. 437 BIBLIOGRAPHY 465 INDEX 483