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Author
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Examines the unrelated murders of two young women near New Haven in the late 1800s, looking at attempts to bring the killers to justice, and considering what the cases reveal about Victorian sex and marriage, drugs, early forensic medicine, and nineteenth-century courtroom procedures.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Shares the story of how the appointment of Charles Norris as chief medical examiner in New York in 1918 dramatically slowed the incidence of murder by poisoning, and looks at how Norris worked together with toxicologist Alexander Gettler to investigate chemistry-related deaths and disorders and to establish the discipline of forensics.
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