Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- COVER ART DETAILS -- PREFACE: A Holistic Approach to Crime Reconstruction -- ORIGINS: THE FORENSIC GENERALIST -- THE FORENSIC GENERALIST FADES -- MODERN CRIME RECONSTRUCTION -- HOLISTIC CRIME RECONSTRUCTION -- REFERENCES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- W. Jerry Chisum -- Brent E. Turvey -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- EOGHAN CASEY, MA -- W. JERRY CHISUM, BS -- CRAIG M. COOLEY, MS, JD -- RAYMOND J. DAVIS, BS -- JOHN D. DeHAAN, PhD -- DONNA KIMMEL- LAKE -- BRUCE R. MORAN, BS -- JOHN I. THORNTON, PhD -- BRENT E. TURVEY, MS -- 1 A HISTORY OF CRIME RECONSTRUCTION -- DR. JOSEPH E. BELL (1837-1911) -- SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930) -- DR. JOHANN (HANS) BAPTIST GUSTAV GROSS (1847-1925) -- DR. ALEXANDRE LACASSAGNE (1843-1924) -- DR. EDMOND LOCARD (1872-1966) -- EDWARD OSCAR HEINRICH (1881-1953) -- DR. PAUL L. KIRK (1902-1970) -- THE BROADER THEME -- REFERENCES -- 2 CRIME RECONSTRUCTION - ETHOS AND ETHICS -- FALLACIES OF LOGIC -- DELIBERATE DECEPTION -- THE FRAUD -- HASTE -- THE INEXPERIENCED -- THE HONEST CRIME RECONSTRUCTIONIST SUBJECTED TO PRESSURE -- RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON UNEVALUATED SURMISE -- A CANON OF ETHICAL CONDUCT FOR THE CRIME RECONSTRUCTIONIST -- REFERENCES -- 3 OBSERVER EFFECTS AND EXAMINER BIAS: PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCES ON THE FORENSIC EXAMINER -- PURPOSE -- OBSERVER EFFECTS -- "HUSHED" CONVERSATIONS AND THE THIRD RAIL -- SUBJECTIVITY AND EXPECTATION IN FORENSIC SCIENCE -- RECOMMENDATIONS TO BLUNT OBSERVER EFFECTS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- 4 PRACTICE STANDARDS FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CRIME -- IS CRIME RECONSTRUCTION A SCIENCE? -- OVERSIMPLIFICATION AND OCCAM'S RAZOR -- THE POLITICS OF BIAS -- ZEALOUS ADVOCATES -- TAKING STEPS -- THINKING ABOUT THINKING -- THE SOCRATIC METHOD AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD -- INDUCTIVE AND DEDUCTIVE REASONING -- CRITICAL THINKING.

NO GOOD REASON: LOGICAL FALLACIES IN CRIME RECONSTRUCTION -- PRACTICE STANDARDS -- REFERENCES -- 5 METHODS OF CRIME RECONSTRUCTION -- CRIME RECONSTRUCTION AND EXPERIENCE -- REASON, METHODS, AND CONFIDENCE -- EVENT ANALYSIS -- THE ROLE OF EVIDENCE: RECONSTRUCTION CLASSIFICATIONS -- CREATING TIME LINES -- THE CRIME SCENE -- THE NATURE OF RECONSTRUCTION -- CRITICAL/CREATIVE THINKING EXERCISES -- ANSWERS - SORT OF -- REFERENCES -- 6 EVIDENCE DYNAMICS -- EVIDENCE DYNAMICS -- DYNAMIC INFLUENCES: PREDISCOVERY -- DYNAMIC INFLUENCES: POSTDISCOVERY -- CHAIN OF CUSTODY/CHAIN OF EVIDENCE -- THE CASE OF JAMIE PENICH -- QUESTIONING THE EVIDENCE DYNAMICS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 7 TRACE EVIDENCE IN CRIME RECONSTRUCTION -- FINGERPRINTS -- BLOOD AND SEMEN -- HAIR -- FIBERS -- PAINT -- GLASS -- SOIL -- DUST -- FOOTWEAR AND TIRE TRACKS -- GUNSHOT RESIDUE -- TOOL MARKS -- PROJECTILE WIPES -- EXPLOSIVES RESIDUE -- AUTOMOBILE LIGHT "ON-OR-OFF" DETERMINATION -- TRACE EVIDENCE TRANSFER -- TRACE EVIDENCE INTERPRETATION IN CRIME RECONSTRUCTION -- TRACE EVIDENCE AND THE FUTURE -- REFERENCES -- 8 SHOOTING INCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION -- SHOOTING INCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION - A PROCESS -- APPLICATION OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD (A KEY ELEMENT IN THE RECONSTRUCTIVE PROCESS) -- CONSIDERATIONS DURING DIRECT INVESTIGATION OF THE SHOOTING INCIDENT -- RECONSTRUCTION WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE ORIGINAL CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION -- THE FIREARM -- FIELD AND LABORATORY EXAMINATION OF FIRED AND UNFIRED AMMUNITION COMPONENTS -- DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF PROJECTILE HOLES, IMPACT SITES, AND RICOCHETS -- DETERMINING THE DIRECTION OF PROJECTILE TRAVEL AND ANGLE OF IMPACT BY EXAMINATION OF BULLET HOLES, IMPACT SITES, AND RICOCHETS -- DETERMINATION OF PROJECTILE PATHS -- SHOOTER LOCATION, POSITION, AND ORENTATION ALONG ESTABLISHED BULLET PATHS.

FURTHER NARROWING SHOOTER POSITION POSSIBILITIES -- GUNFIRE INVOLVING VEHICLES -- RECONSTRUCTION CONSIDERATIONS INVOLVING SHOTGUN EVIDENCE -- DIAGRAMS AND ILLUSTRATIONS -- CLOTHING OF THE PARTICIPANTS -- REVIEW OF THE AUTOPSY REPORT -- MEDICAL RECORDS AND PHYSICIAN REPORTS -- REVIEW OF CRIME SCENE PHOTOGRAPHS, DIAGRAMS, AND REPORTS -- REVIEW OF FIRST RESPONDING POLICE OFFICER REPORTS -- REVIEW OF INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS, INCLUDING VICTIM, SUSPECT, AND WITNESS STATEMENTS -- REVIEW OF LABORATORY PHYSICAL EVIDENCE EXAMINATION REPORTS -- REVISITING THE SHOOTING SCENE -- TESTING OF PROPOSED THEORIES AND OFFERING THE BEST SOLUTIONS THROUGH ROLE PLAYING -- CLOSING COMMENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 9 RECONSTRUCTION USING BLOODSTAIN EVIDENCE -- SHORT COURSE PITFALLS: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY -- WHAT KNOWLEDGE IS NEEDED? -- BLOOD IN THE BODY -- BLOOD FROM THE BODY -- INJURIES -- THE CRIME SCENE -- THE WEAPON -- BLOODSTAIN PATTERNS -- THE VICTIM AND SUSPECT -- SUMMARY -- REPORTING -- ATTACHMENT 1: CASE REPORT -- BLOODSTAIN PATTERN EXPERIMENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 10 FIRE SCENE RECONSTRUCTION -- THE CHALLENGE OF FIRE SCENE RECONSTRUCTION -- SCIENTIFIC METHOD -- THE BASIC INVESTIGATION -- DOCUMENTATION -- ESTABLISH STARTING CONDITIONS -- BASIC FIRE CHEMISTRY -- BASIC FIRE DYNAMICS -- EVALUATE HEAT TRANSFER PATTERNS -- FIRE SCENE RECONSTRUCTION -- AREA OF ORIGIN -- CAUSATION -- CASE STUDY -- CRIMINALISTICS ASPECTS -- FIRE DEATHS AND INJURIES -- FIRE TESTING -- COMPUTER MODELING -- LABORATORY TESTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 11 RECONSTRUCTING DIGITAL EVIDENCE -- OVERVIEW OF DIGITAL EVIDENCE -- DIGITAL CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION -- INTERPRETATION OF DIGITAL EVIDENCE1 -- ATTRIBUTION USING DIGITAL EVIDENCE -- DIGITAL DOCUMENT AUTHENTICATION -- EVALUATION OF SOURCE -- ASSESSING ALIBIS AND STATEMENTS.

DETERMINING MOTIVATION AND INTENT -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 12 STAGED CRIME SCENES -- GROSS -- O'CONNELL AND SODERMAN -- SVENSSON AND WENDEL -- DOUGLAS AND MUNN -- TURVEY -- AD HOC RECONSTRUCTION -- CASE EXAMPLES -- USE OF CRIME RECONSTRUCTION TO DETERMINE STAGING -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 13 SURVIVING AND THRIVING IN THE COURTROOM -- FEAR OF PUBLIC SPEAKING -- THE LEGAL PROCESS FOR EXPERT TESTIMONY -- QUALIFICATION QUESTIONS FOR THE EXPERT WITNESS -- REFERENCES -- 14 RECONSTRUCTIONISTS IN A POST-DAUBERT AND POST-DNA COURTROOM -- FORENSIC SCIENCE UNDER SCRUTINY -- WHAT IS EXPECTED FROM THE RECONSTRUCTIONIST? -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- COLOR PLATES.