Dead men do tell tales : the strange and fascinating cases of a forensic anthropologist
Edition
1st trade pbk. ed.
Publication Information
New York : Broadway Books, 2001.
Physical Description
292 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary
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 Do Tell Tales, Dr. Maples revisits his strangest, most interesting, and most horrific investigations, from the baffling cases of conquistador Francisco Pizarro and Vietnam MIAs to the mysterious deaths of President Zachary Taylor and the family of Czar Nicholas II.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
- Every day is Halloween
- Talkative skulls
- "Bolts of bones"
- "Enfolding earth"
- Flotsam and jetsam
- "When the sickness is your soul"
- Outpacing the fiend
- Unnatural nature
- "Sunless place"
- Flames and urns
- Death in 10,000 fragments
- Lost legions
- Misplaced conquistador
- Arsenic and "Old rough and ready"
- Tsar of al the Russians
- "These rough notes and our dead bodies"
- Acknowledgements
- Index.