The Killer of Little Shepherds A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
eAudio - 2010
A riveting true crime story that vividly recounts the birth of modern forensics.At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher, known and feared as “The Killer of Little Shepherds,” terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities for years—until he ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne, the era’s most renowned criminologist. The two men—intelligent and bold—typified the Belle Époque, a period of immense scientific achievement and fascination with science’s promise to reveal the secrets of the human condition. With high drama and stunning detail, Douglas Starr revisits Vacher’s infamous crime wave, interweaving the story of how Lacassagne and his colleagues were d...eveloping forensic science as we know it. We see one of the earliest uses of criminal profiling, as Fourquet painstakingly collects eyewitness accounts and constructs a map of Vacher’s crimes. We...
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File Size | 360 GB |
Parts | 10 |
ISBN | 9780307875778 |
Release Date | 10/5/2010 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 359 GB |
ISBN | 9780307875778 |
Release Date | 10/5/2010 |