Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist by Michael Browning, William R. Maples

Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist

Michael Browning, William R. Maples

304 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction science true crime informative slow-paced

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From a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer.  In Dead Men...

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