Pointing From the Grave

作者:Samantha Weinberg

页数:368

出版时间:2003-4

价格:261.00元

isbn号码:9781401351953

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This is the remarkable and gripping true story of a murderer and his victim, and the tiny molecule that linked their fates. It is both the history of a science overlaid with human drama, and a human tragedy inextricably entwined with science. It is about two lives made and destroyed by DNA and by each other. In 1984, Helena Greenwood, a young British DNA scientist, was sexually assaulted in her San Francisco cottage. A year later and 500 miles south, she was strangled to death. The alleged rapist, Paul Frediani, was the prime suspect, but police and forensic experts failed to link him to the murder. The crime was consigned to the cold case file. Over the next fifteen years, Frediani continued his life with a job, children, and apparently nothing to tie him to Greenwoods death. Scientists, meanwhile, were beginning to use DNA to unravel the riddle of human identity. Their discoveries beat a path from the laboratory to the courtroom. In 1999, this prompted a determined San Diego detective, Laura Heilig, to reopen the Greenwood file, where she discovered a vital clue. Like a classic thriller, this is a tale of twists and turns. From crime scene to courtroom, laboratory bench to prison cell, Pointing from the Grave is the unforgettable story of how a dead womans groundbreaking work pointed the finger at her own murderer.

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sometimes too trivial, but still quite intriguing. more like fiction than a true story.

sometimes too trivial, but still quite intriguing. more like fiction than a true story.

sometimes too trivial, but still quite intriguing. more like fiction than a true story.

sometimes too trivial, but still quite intriguing. more like fiction than a true story.

sometimes too trivial, but still quite intriguing. more like fiction than a true story.