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Forensic history : crimes, frauds, and scandals / Elizabeth A. Murray ; studio director, Jim M. Allen.

Chantilly, Virginia : The Great Courses : Teaching Company, [2015]

©2015

4 DVDs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 191 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

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This course is a journey through time and place from the perspective of forensic science and criminal history. It examines technical advancements and politics and legal issues regarding criminal investigations. The course includes Dr. Murray's own forensic casework.

The great courses. Science & mathematics. Biology

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Biology.

Forensic sciences -- History.

Medical jurisprudence -- History.

Lectures.

Nonfiction films.

Murray, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann), 1958- creator, speaker.

Allen, Jim M. (Director), film director.

Murray, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann), 1958- Forensic history: crimes, frauds, and scandals: course guidebook.

Teaching Company, publisher.

"Course no. 1174"--Disc label.

Course consists of 24 lectures, about 30 min. each.

Title on accompanying guidebook: "Forensic history: crimes, frauds, and scandals: course guidebook", by Elizabeth A. Murray.

Bibliographical references included in course guidebook.

Film director, Jim Allen.

Lecturer: Elizabeth A. Murray, Mount St. Joseph University.

DVD.

The Infamous Jack the Ripper -- Analyzing the Black Dahlia murder -- Dissecting Hollywood deaths -- Decomposition and confusing interpretations -- Lizzie Borden and the Menendez brothers -- The Tylenol murders -- Copycats and hoaxes -- Frauds and forgeries -- Blood doping and other sports scandals -- Bad boys of U.S. politics -- Criminals of the wild, wild West -- Investigating incredible bank heists -- How reliable is eyewitness testimony? -- The truth behind false confessions -- Crooked cops and bad convictions -- Guilty until proven innocent -- Political assassinations -- Mysteries of the Romanov family -- Forensics of genocide -- The Nazi's and the witch of Buchenwald -- The spies have it -- Motive and kidnapping -- Identification matters -- The past, present, and future of forensics.

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