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Morgue : a life in death / Dr. Vincent Di Maio and Ron Franscell ; foreword by Dr. Jan Garavaglia.

Van Pelt Library RB17.D56 A3 2017
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Di Maio, Vincent J. M., 1941- author.
Franscell, Ron, 1957- author.
Contributor:
Garavaglia, Jan, writer of foreword.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Di Maio, Vincent J. M., 1941-.
Di Maio, Vincent J. M.
Pathologists--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
Pathologists.
New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Physical Description:
xix, 268 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition:
First Picador edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Picador/St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Summary:
Di Maio and Franscell guide us behind the morgue doors to tell a life story through the cases that have made Di Maio famous-from the exhumation of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald to the complex issues in the shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. Beginning with his street-smart Italian origins in Brooklyn, the book spans 40 years of work and more than 9,000 autopsies, and Di Maio's eventual rise into the pantheon of forensic scientists. --From publisher description.
Contents:
Foreword: It's all about the puzzle
A death in black and white
The "why" incision
An empty nursery
Bombed beyond recognition
Digging up Lee Harvey Oswald
Monsters among us
Secrets and puzzles
Detail, justice, and celebrity
The ghosts of West Memphis
The curious death of Vincent Van Gogh
Epilogue: At the end of things.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781250108326
1250108322
OCLC:
1039697985
Publisher Number:
90104328799

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