Professor Elizabeth A Murray discusses various techniques and issues in forensic science through the medium of cases throughout history.

This was an engaging series of lectures about the history of forensic science. The series consists of twenty-five lectures, over the course of which Murray covers famous cases like Jack the Ripper and the Black Dahlia, as well as topics like false confessions and wrongful convictions, hoaxes and frauds, and the forensics of genocide, to name a few. Murray has an engaging manner and delivers the lectures in a straightforward and easily digested way.

However, listeners expecting to hear more details on the 'science' of forensic science will come away disappointed.