| Starrs is a law professor who gained media attention in the 1990s for exhuming the corpora delicti in historical cases of suspicious deaths. In these accounts of six such cases, an affinity for publicity appears to be entangled among Starrs' motivations, plainly so in his digging up of Jesse James. (Yup, that was Jesse in the grave.) Also palpable, however, Starrs' desire to rectify injustice when he encounters deficiencies in the official investigation. Often descendents of victims requested that Starrs reinvestigate a case. So began his scrutiny of the murder of Huey Long, the 1953 death-by-defenestration of a CIA agent, and the Boston Strangler murders; for each Starrs concludes officialdom got it wrong. Other matters Starrs opened because they intrigued him, including his attempt to unearth Meriwether Lewis (request denied) and his excavation of the 1874 victims of Colorado cannibal Albert Packer. Like the memoirs written by forensics experts (e.g., Emily Craig's Teasing Secrets from the Dead [BKL Ag 04]), Starrs' work enhances a genre enjoying pronounced popularity. Gilbert Taylor Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved |
| James Starrs，is David B.Weaver Research Professor of Law as well as Professor of Forensic Sciences at The George Washington University in Washington,D.c.,and a Distinguished Flellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.His coauthored book Scientific Evidence in Civil and Criminal Cases is the standard single-volume text in its field.He lives in Springfield,Virginia. |
| lntroduction:Desiderata for an Exhumation 1.ALFRED G.PACKER 2.CARL AUSTIN WEISS,M.D. 3.FRANK OLSON 4.JESSE JAMES 5.MARY A.SULLIVAN 6.THE UNHEARD VOICES OF THE DEAD Selected Bibliongraphy by Chapter Index |
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