For Laurah Norton, forensic science was always more of a passion than anything else. But after learning about a mishandled 1990s cold case, she was spurred to action, eventually creating a massively popular podcast and building a platform that helped bring widespread attention and resources to the case. This book builds on Laurah's fascination with these investigations, introducing readers to the history and evolution of forensic science. Incorporating...

An anthropologist, working with forensic teams and victims’ families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America, comes to see how cutting-edge science also acts as a way of caring for the dead with symbolic force that can repair societies torn apart by violence.

Recounts the story of the Dozier School, a Florida reform school shut down in 2011 due to reports of cruelty, abuse, and mysterious deaths, and the efforts of the author, a leading forensic anthropologist, to locate and exhume the graves of the boys buried there in order to reunite them with their families.