by Val McDermid
Crippen case 68–71
Gareth Williams case 84–6
McLean case 63–5
medical examiner system 97
Spilsbury 67–78, 79
Thorne case 74–7
Toms case vii–viii
Peel, Robert 21
Pemberton, Neil 77
Pepys, Samuel 18
Pereyra, Liliana 171
petrol branding 34–6
Phantom of Heilbronn 157
Pharmaceutical Journal 92
Phillips, Christopher 162
Philpott, Mairead 35–6
Philpott, Mick 35–6
photoanthropometry 207
phrenology 164
Pilley, Suzanne 222–5
Pillow Pyro 38–42
Piotrowski, Eduard 140
Pitchfork, Colin 150–1, 151
Point of Origin 38
poison 88–9, 97–8, 102–4, 110
McTavish case 104–5
Markov case 110–12
Radium Girls 98–102
Shipman case 105–10
Singh case 112–14
see also arsenic
Poisoner’s Handbook, The (Blum) 102
polymerase chain reaction (PCR) 152–3
pornography 213–15
Price, David 83
Pritchard, Tim 263
profiling see offender profiling psychological autopsy 261–2
psychology 234–6, 238, 245–7, 249–51, 257–62
Jack the Ripper 238–41, 245–6
Mad Bomber of New York 241–5
Rachel Nickell case 251–6
Railway Killer 247–9
Shipman case 109–10
Vampire of Düsseldorf 236–8
Psychopath Inside, The (Fallon) 236
putrefaction 80–2
Quick-Mann, Richard 95
Quinn, Detective Garda Seamus 26, 27
Quirk, Thomas 287–9
radium 98–102
Railway Killer 247–9
Raitt, Fiona 263, 271, 272, 276, 281–2, 283, 284, 285
Rakoff, Jed 288
Randall, Joseph 10–11
rape
court process 281–3
Railway Rapist 247–9
Redi, Francesco 52
Reed, David 154–6, 271
Reed, Terry 154–6, 271
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 217
Reinsch, Hugo 92
Reinsch Test 92, 96
Reynolds, Jamie 214–15
Reynolds, Linda 107
Richard III 208
ricin 110–12
Riechmann, Dieter 288–9
rigor mortis 73, 80
Rikkers, Rowena 193–4
Roberts, Tim 266–7
Robinson, Lord 105
Rogerson, Mary 48–50, 51
Rojas, Francisca 119–20
Rojas, Ponciano 119–20
Rojas, Teresa 119–20
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) 88
Rose, Andrew 77
Rose, Hubert 203
Ross, Marion 130–2
Rossmo, Kim 249–50
Rowling, J. K. 113
Russian Academy of Sciences 198
Rutherford, John 108
Ruxton, Buck 48–51, 126, 205
Ruxton, Isabella 48–50, 50
Schaub, Katherine 101
Scotland 280
Scotland Yard, Fingerprint Bureau 118–19, 121, 123–4, 123, 125
Scott, Adam 157
Seelig, Leo 277–8, 284
Senghenydd Colliery 22
Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) 7, 12–13
serial offenders 245–6, 249–50
Brides in the Bath Murders 71–4
Jack the Ripper 122, 238–41, 245–6, 290–1
Napper 255–6
Railway Killer 247–9
Shipman 106–10
Vampire of Düsseldorf 236–8
Shakespeare, William 43, 88, 138, 195
Shepherd, Dick 78–9, 82–6, 270
Longhurst case 212
Rachel Nickell case 255–6
Sheppard, Marilyn Reese 140, 141
Sheppard, Samuel 140, 141, 142
Shipman, Harold Frederick 106–10, 108
Sierra Leone 172
Silence of the Lambs, The 246
Simpson, Nicole Brown 285–6
Simpson, O. J. 285–6, 287
Singh, Lakhvir 112–14
smartphones 115
Smethurst, Thomas 67
Smith, George Joseph 71–4, 72
Smith, Dame Janet 109
Smith, Ken 46
Smith, Sydney 78
smoke alarms 36–7
Snow, Clyde 170–1, 170, 180
snuff sites 213–14
Song Ci 43–4, 175–6
South Africa 171
Southall, David 146–7
Spain 127
Spilsbury, Sir Bernard 67–78, 75, 270
Spratling, Inspector John 239
Stafford-Smith, Clive 286–9
Stagg, Colin 252–6
Stanworth, Denise 114
Stardust disco fire 23–9, 25
Stewart, T. D. 179, 180
Stratton, Albert 124–7
Stratton, Alfred 124–7
Straw, Jack 216
Stride, Elizabeth 291
Study in Scarlet, A (Conan Doyle) 5, 138–9, 148
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome 273–5
suttee 117–18
Switzerland 127
Syria 173
Tamboezer, Maartje 247
Tanner, John 63–5
Taylor, Alfred Swaine 67, 73
Taylor, Edward 20
Teton, Howard 245
text messages 221–2
Thailand 172
Thames Mystery 122
Thorne, Norman 74–7
Thornwald, Jurgen 97
tobacco 5
Tomlinson, Val 12–13, 142–5, 150–1, 160–1
court process 270, 278–9
Reed brothers case 154–5, 156, 271
Toms, John viii
toxicology 88–115
aconite 112–14
arsenic viii–ix, 89–97
drug concentration tests 114–15
insulin 104–5
morphine 106–10
radium 98–102
ricin 110–12
Treatise on Poisons, A (Orfila) 88–9, 92
Trotter, Mildred 180
Tully, Gill 150, 152, 156, 158, 162–4
Turner, Terence 271–2
Turvey, Brent 246
Tweedy, Catherine 132–4, 279
Twitter 230
University of Tennessee 81–2
Unsolved 188
Uomo Delinquente, L’ (Lombroso) 195–6
US
courtroom 285–9
DNA profiling 148, 159–60
familial DNA searching 159
fingerprinting 127
missing children 193
snuff sites 214
toxicology 97–8
US Army Central Identification Laboratory 180
US Radium Corporation 98–102
Vampire of Düsseldorf 236–8
Van Dam, Brenda 59
Van Dam, Danielle 59–61
Vass, Arpad 82
vein pattern analysis 183–6, 276, 292
Velázquez, Pedro 120
Vesalius, Andreas 66
Vice 229
Virtual Autopsy (VA) table 87
Vucetich, Juan 119–20
Wambaugh, Joseph 38
Washing Away of Wrongs, The (Song Ci) 43–4, 44, 175–6
Weir, Justice 154, 155
West, Iain 65
Westerfield, David 59–61, 60
whale oil 20–1
Whitaker, Jonathan 158
Whorton, James C. 102
Wilcox, Fiona 86
Wilkinson, Caroline 192, 196, 200, 205,
208–9, 291
Dunleavy case 201
Karadžić case 206–7
Nulde girl case 192–4
Richard III 208
Williams, Alan 274
Williams, Bessie 71–3, 72
Williams, Gareth 84–6
Williams, Georgia 214–15
Willis, Lisa 36
Witness was a Fly, The (BBC) 55
wolfsbane 112–14
Wordsworth, William 190
Yorkshire Ripper 259
Zumbo, Giulio 196–7
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