The untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. A pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime.

Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books--sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-year career. Known as the "American Sherlock Holmes," Edward Oscar Heinrich was one of America's greatest--and first--forensic scientists, with an uncanny knack for finding clues, establishing evidence, and deducing answers with...

William Fleisher, Frank Bender, and Richard Walter are three of the world's greatest detectives. Each with their own set of skills, the so-called 'heirs of Sherlock Holmes' have set aside their longstanding rivalry for the sake of justice. Together, they assemble the grandest team of investigators the world has ever seen in an attempt to bring the world's murderers to justice.

Profiles eight pioneers in forensics, including James Marsh (toxicology), Henry Faulds (fingerprints), Albert Sherman Osborn (questioned documents), Charles Waite and Calvin Goddard (ballistics), Mildred Trotter (forensic anthropology), Jacques Penry (photo-FIT), and Alec Jeffreys (DNA fingerprints).

A small plane crashes into a cornfield and bursts into flames. The three men aboard and their pilot are killed in the inferno. The bodies are burned beyond recognition. Can they be identified? A park ranger uncovers a human torso along a walking path in a nature preserve. The next day, a sanitation worker spots two human legs jutting out of a dumpster. That same afternoon, a man finds the severed head of a young woman along the side of the road. Are...

Describes how blood analysis is used to solve crimes, including the tests performed by lab technicians on samples to determine blood type and other characteristics, and finding, saving and interpreting blood evidence.