Morgue (40 page)

If Phil Spector had shot actress Lana Clarkson his white jacket would have been splattered with blood … but there was very little. The criminalist's tags show the spots where only very fine blood droplets were found.
(A
LHAMBRA
C
ALIFORNIA
P
OLICE
D
EPARTMENT
)

Three troubled teenagers were arrested, tried, and convicted in the horrific torture slayings of three little boys near West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993. But did they do it?
(W
EST
M
EMPHIS
A
RKANSAS
P
OLICE
D
EPARTMENT
)

The mutilated bodies of three young boys were found in a woodland near West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993, and suspicion immediately fell on three teenagers.

Oscar-winning producer Peter Jackson, of
Hobbit
fame, also produced the documentary
West of Memphis,
on which I appeared.
(D
I
M
AIO COLLECTION
)

Did the disturbed genius Vincent van Gogh commit suicide, as legend has it? Or did he die another way?

Auberge Ravoux still operates as an inn in Auvers, but the tiny room where van Gogh died is no longer used.
(H
ENK-JAN DE
J
ONG
/V
ELSERBROEK
, N
ETHERLANDS
)

Admirers regularly leave messages at Vincent van Gogh's grave in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, where he died in a strange suicide in 1890.
(R
ICHARD
T
AYLOR
/E
DINBURGH
, S
COTLAND
)

 

Also by Dr. Vincent Di Maio

Gunshot Wounds

Forensic Pathology
(with Dr. Dominick Di Maio)

Handbook of Forensic Pathology
(with Dr. Suzanna E. Dana)

Excited Delirium Syndrome
(with Theresa Di Maio)

Also by
Ron Franscell

The Darkest Night

Delivered from Evil

The Crime Buff's Guide
Series

Nightmare at Noon
(with Gregg Olsen)

Evil at the Front Door
(with Rebecca Morris)

The Sourtoe Cocktail Club

Angel Fire

The Deadline

The Obituary

 

About the Authors

VINCENT DI MAIO, M.D.,
is an American pathologist and an internationally renowned expert on gunshot wounds. Now a private consultant who has performed more than nine thousand autopsies, he has played pivotal roles in some of the most provocative trials and death investigations of the past forty years.

RON FRANSCELL
is the bestselling crime author of
The Darkest Night
and
Delivered from Evil.
His work regularly appears in publications such as
The Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
and
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
He now lives in Texas. Visit Ron's Web site at
www.ronfranscell.com
. Or sign up for email updates
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.

    

 

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraphs

FOREWORD

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE PUZZLE
Dr. Jan Garavaglia

ONE

A DEATH IN BLACK AND WHITE