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3. The Sudden Infant Death Debate: Dr. Roy Meadow, Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, and Meadow’s Law

© 2019 Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick

© 2019 Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. Preface ix
  4. Acknowledgments xi
  5. Introduction 1
  6. PART ONE. Diagnosing Death: Problems in the Science and Practice of Forensic Pathology
  7. Introduction 9
  8. 1. Forensic Pathologists from Hell: Bungled Autopsies, Bad Calls, and Blown Cases 13
  9. 2. A Question of Credibility: Bad Reputations and the Politics of Death 29
  10. 3. The Sudden Infant Death Debate: Dr. Roy Meadow, Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, and Meadow’s Law 47
  11. 4. Infants Who Can’t Breathe: Illness or Suffocation? 67
  12. 5. Swollen Brains and Broken Bones: Disease or Infanticide? 79
  13. PART TWO. Crime-Scene Impression Identification: Forensic Science or Subjective Analysis?
  14. 6. Fingerprint Identification: Trouble in Paradise 101
  15. 7. Fingerprints Never Lie: Except in Scotland 123
  16. 8. Shoe-Print Identification and Foot Morphology: The Lay Witness and the Cinderella Analysis 139
  17. 9. Bite-Mark Identification: Do Teeth Leave Prints? 153
  18. 10. Ear-Mark Identification: Emerging Science or Bad Evidence? 169
  19. PART THREE. Hired Guns, Smoke Blowers, and Phonies: The Expert Witness Problem
  20. Introduction 179
  21. 11. Expert versus Expert: The Handwriting Wars in the Ramsey Case 182
  22. 12. John Mark Karr: DNA Trumps the Graphologists in the Ramsey Case 206
  23. 13. Hair and Fiber Identification: An Inexact Science 218
  24. 14. DNA Analysis: Backlogs, Sloppy Work, and Unqualified People 231
  25. 15. Bullet Identification, FBI Style: Overselling the Science 244
  26. 16. The Celebrity Expert: Dr. Henry Lee 253
  27. Conclusion 275
  28. Notes 287
  29. Sources 291
  30. Index 317
  31. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 325
Forensics Under Fire
This chapter is in the book Forensics Under Fire
https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813544243-007

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. Preface ix
  4. Acknowledgments xi
  5. Introduction 1
  6. PART ONE. Diagnosing Death: Problems in the Science and Practice of Forensic Pathology
  7. Introduction 9
  8. 1. Forensic Pathologists from Hell: Bungled Autopsies, Bad Calls, and Blown Cases 13
  9. 2. A Question of Credibility: Bad Reputations and the Politics of Death 29
  10. 3. The Sudden Infant Death Debate: Dr. Roy Meadow, Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, and Meadow’s Law 47
  11. 4. Infants Who Can’t Breathe: Illness or Suffocation? 67
  12. 5. Swollen Brains and Broken Bones: Disease or Infanticide? 79
  13. PART TWO. Crime-Scene Impression Identification: Forensic Science or Subjective Analysis?
  14. 6. Fingerprint Identification: Trouble in Paradise 101
  15. 7. Fingerprints Never Lie: Except in Scotland 123
  16. 8. Shoe-Print Identification and Foot Morphology: The Lay Witness and the Cinderella Analysis 139
  17. 9. Bite-Mark Identification: Do Teeth Leave Prints? 153
  18. 10. Ear-Mark Identification: Emerging Science or Bad Evidence? 169
  19. PART THREE. Hired Guns, Smoke Blowers, and Phonies: The Expert Witness Problem
  20. Introduction 179
  21. 11. Expert versus Expert: The Handwriting Wars in the Ramsey Case 182
  22. 12. John Mark Karr: DNA Trumps the Graphologists in the Ramsey Case 206
  23. 13. Hair and Fiber Identification: An Inexact Science 218
  24. 14. DNA Analysis: Backlogs, Sloppy Work, and Unqualified People 231
  25. 15. Bullet Identification, FBI Style: Overselling the Science 244
  26. 16. The Celebrity Expert: Dr. Henry Lee 253
  27. Conclusion 275
  28. Notes 287
  29. Sources 291
  30. Index 317
  31. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 325
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