Blood, fluid, fibre, hair, tissue prints - every contact leaves a trace at a crime scene. Connie Fletchert presents, in the experts' own words, what happens at the scene and in the crime lab, starting with discovery of the crime through criminal trial. Evidence technicians, blood spatter experts, latent print specialists, trace analysts, forensic anthropologists, entomologists, DNA experts, firearms experts, trace analysts, homicide detectives, and prosecution and defence attorneys - more than eighty experts - take you into their world behind the yellow tape. This is the experts' book on their words, their knowledge, their stories - real crime scene investigation.