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| Title: | Skeletons in the Closet
: Stories from the Country Morgue |
| Author: | Tobin T Buhk & Stephen D Cohle, MD |
| ISBN: | 1591026032 : 9781591026037 |
| Illustrations: | colour photos |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 408 |
| Weight: | .708 Kg. |
| Published: | Prometheus Books - March 2008 |
| List Price: | 18.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | True crime: Forensic medicine |
A mother calls 999 because her child, despite a foetal monitor, stopped breathing. She didn't know it, but the foetal monitor her doctor prescribed had a memory chip. Would the monitor's memory chip preserve evidence of a tragic accident or a murder? A young couple's marriage is crumbling, but they decide to take one last family trip. She will never return home. A pool of blood suggests she died from injuries caused by an accidental fall from a boat dock. So how did she wind up face down in the lake? For more than two decades, Dr. Stephen D Cohle has been solving vexing forensic mysteries as the medical examiner for Kent County, Michigan. As a whole, the cases he considers represent a cross-section of crime in mid-America, often committed by a macabre cast of characters: "Jekyll and Hyde" alcoholics who turned homicidal; killers who resorted to the most bizarre methods in concealing their crimes; and the rarest species in the zoo of criminology, a two-woman team of serial killers. Based on his work with Dr Cohle, true-crime writer Tobin T Buhk recounts twenty-one riveting, real-life stories, each with a unique forensic twist. Offering a glimpse into strange sights, sounds, and smells of the county morgue, these tales of intrigue, deception, and murder will fascinate true-crime buffs, fans of CSI, and readers of mystery and detective stories.
Introduction: "Moonlighting"; Identity Crisis; Series; I Fought the Law and the Law Won; Malice Domestic; By Reason of Insanity?; Burying the Evidence; Accidents; Things Ain't Always What They Seem; Conclusion: "Double Trouble"; Index.
