Author: Di Maio, Vincent
Call Number: 616.07092 D582YM 2016
Book Description from amazon.com:
In this clear-eyed, gritty, and enthralling narrative, Dr. Vincent Di Maio and veteran crime writer Ron Franscell guide us behind the morgue doors to tell a fascinating life story through the cases that have made Di Maio famous―from the exhumation of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald to the complex issues in the shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.
Beginning with his street-smart Italian origins in Brooklyn, the book spans forty years of work and more than nine thousand autopsies, and Di Maio’s eventual rise into the pantheon of forensic scientists. One of the country’s most methodical and intuitive criminal pathologists will dissect himself, maintaining a nearly continuous flow of suspenseful stories, revealing anecdotes, and enough macabre insider details to rivet the most fervent crime fans.
My Read:
"Sorry, but that's not your exit wound," I repeated. "That's an entrance wound."-page 157
Exit wound or entrance wound? When I read the cases listed in this book I wondered how many cases in the real world are really solved, how justice is defined, how innocence is really innocence and, vice versa. Interpretation and assumption are dangerous, specially the later one.
Page-53 "Today, there are only about 500 working, board-certified forensic pathologists in the United States-about the same number as twenty years ago. Problem is, we need as many as 1,500 to keep up with the steadily increasing parade of unexplained deaths." When I read about this my mind went back to the well-known medical examiner back home, Dr. Yang. He is a legend in the field of pathology. One of the things people remember about Dr. Yang was his respect to his "patients."
Cases/stories included in this book are fascinating. It's a good read.
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