Presents an introduction to forensic science, explaining how anthropologists use human remains such as skeletons and bones to identify victims and solve mysterious and violent crimes.

Presents an introduction to forensic science, explaining how insects, pollen grains and other evidence from nature can leave trace clues that help make or break criminal cases and solve crimes.

Presents an introduction to forensic science, explaining how American popular culture is fascinated by crime and forensics based television programs and examines how that shapes the various media, movies, and the Internet.

Presents an introduction to forensic science, explaining how postmortem examinations can reveal evidence that leads to crimes and other mysteries being solved, describes how the human body records details of a crime through cuts, wounds, bruises, fingerprints, and blood.

Presents an introduction to forensic science, explaining how the principles of physics can be used to solve crimes and other mysteries, from ballistics and blood splatter to bomb blasts.

Presents an introduction to forensic science, explaining how scientists and crime-scene investigators use techniques to reveal microscopic evidence when it is otherwise scarce.