Modern history is filled with terrible crimes, baffling hoaxes, and seedy scandals. The infamous Jack the Ripper slayings. The alleged survival of Anastasia Romanov, the youngest daughter of the murdered Tsar. Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong's public fall from grace. The Chicago Tylenol poisonings and the copycat crimes that followed. Step into the world of forensic science and study the most fascinating crimes and mysteries from the last two centuries in the 24 lectures of Forensic History: Crimes, Frauds, and Scandals. Professor Murray, a forensic anthropologist with nearly 30 years of experience in the field, has crafted lectures that are a remarkable blend of storytelling and science - a whirlwind tour that takes you from the gas-lit streets of Victorian London to small-town America. As you journey around the world and into the past, you'll re-examine modern history's great crimes and scandals using the tools and insights of forensic science. In doing so, you'll learn how cutting-edge advancements in science and technology are applied to investigations and how to evaluate evidence and think like a forensic scientist. Using her extensive background in the field and her skill at weaving riveting stories, Professor Murray invites you peer over the shoulders of investigators as they examine some of the most famous crimes in history, as well as cases that shed light on what happens when the justice system goes awry. Whether they're controversial or by-the-book, solved or unsolved, hot or cold, these cases are an opportunity to gain deeper insight into the historic and cutting-edge methods and tools forensic scientists use on the job. Having participated in hundreds of investigations in America and abroad, Professor Murray intersperses these historical examinations with some of her own, equally intriguing, personal experiences.
All Lectures: 1. The Infamous Jack the Ripper 2. Analyzing the Black Dahlia Murder 3. Dissecting Hollywood Deaths 4. Decomposition and Confusing Interpretations 5. Lizzie Borden and the Menendez Brothers 6. The Tylenol Murders 7. Copycats and Hoaxes 8. Frauds and Forgeries 9. Blood Doping and Other Sports Scandals 10. Bad Boys of U.S. Politics 11. Criminals of the Wild, Wild West 12. Investigating Incredible Bank Heists 13. How Reliable is Eyewitness Testimony? 14. The Truth behind False Confessions 15. Crooked Cops and Bad Convictions 16. Guilty until Proven Innocent 17. Political Assassinations 18. Mysteries of the Romanov Family 19. Forensics of Genocide 20. The Nazis and the Witch of Buchenwald 21. The Spies Have It 22. Motive and Kidnapping 23. Identification Matters 24. The Past, Present, and Future of Forensics
