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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
What could have been a good book ruined by a literary device,
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This review is from: Famous Crimes Revisited: A Forensic Scientist Reexamines the Evidence (Paperback)
I'm a big reader of forensic studies of crime, but this one hits a new low in clunky formats. Lee (with co-author LaBriola) reviews a number of famous cases, including the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman, the JonBenet Ramsey case, the Lindbergh kidnappingm, the Sacco and Vanzetti trials and more. Lee and LaBriola's analysis of the cases themselves are intriguing, but why, oh why did they feel it necessary to encumber the book with the fictional character of one "Sam Constant?" This "dream" character materializes to draw Lee back in time to visit the older cases, or in the more recent ones, to deliver his opinion as the voice of the General Public. It's a terrible device, blundering and awkward, badly written, and in the end manages to make the authors look foolish and takes away from their veracity as scientists.
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Famous Crimes Revisited: A Forensic Scientist Reexamines the Evidence by Jerry Labriola (Paperback - June 1, 2004)
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