Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-245) and index
Introduction -- The Turin Shroud: genuine relic or medieval fake? -- Napoleon Bonaparte; poison, poison everywhere -- Alfred Packer: the Colorado cannibal -- Donald Merrett: freed by forensics to kill again -- William Lancaster: a bullet in the night -- Sir Henry John Delves Broughton: murder in high places -- Alfred de Marigny: the bogus fingerprint -- Sam Sheppard: medical malpractice and Dr. Sam -- Steven Truscott: a time for dying -- Lee Harvey Oswald: the calculating patsy -- Jeffrey MacDonald: fatal revision -- Lindy Chamberlain: Australia's forensic nightmare -- Roberto Calvi: the curious death of God's banker -- Colin Stagg: mind games -- O.J. Simpson: when money met science