Evidence for murder : how physics convicted a killer / Rod Cross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cross, R. C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal investigation--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.).

Criminal investigation.

Murder--Investigation--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.).

Murder.

Byrne, Caroline, 1970-1994.

Byrne, Caroline.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, Australia : New South, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When Australian model Caroline Byrne's crumpled body was discovered at the base of a cliff known as The Gap, a famous Sydney landmark and popular suicide spot, it was easy for both the public and police to assume her death was suicide. As a result; no crime scene was established, no measurements or photographs were taken, and no police log books recorded the events surrounding the recovery of her body. And yet forensic science would eventually prove that she could not possibly have landed in the place her body was found - wedged head-first into a crevice almost nine metres from the edge of the

Contents:

pt. 1. The suspicious death of Caroline Byrne

pt. 2. Physics : the evidence for murder

pt. 3. The trial of Gordon Wood.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-74223-108-X

OCLC:

635291433