Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The science of crime scene investigation -- The "forensic mindset" -- From scene to laboratory to court -- What is a crime scene? -- Crime scene intelligence : connecting people, places, and things -- Personnel and procedures -- Personnel -- First responder on the scene -- The investigator in charge -- The forensic team: officers, scientists and specialists -- Non-forensic personnel : superiors, officials, and the media -- General crime scene procedure -- "Freezing" the scene and the 3R's (recognize, record and recover) -- The chain of custody -- Recording the scene: sketching, photography, and video -- Detection and reconstruction -- Searching for evidence : recovery -- Detecting -- Collection -- Preserving -- Submitting evidence to the laboratory -- Evidence types and enhancement -- Chemical evidence -- Biological evidence -- Impression evidence -- Other evidence types -- Crime scene reconstruction -- An archaeological approach -- Bloodstain pattern analysis -- Photogrammetry and 3d reconstruction -- Special crime scenes -- Special crime scenes -- Disaster and mass fatalities -- Terrorist crime scenes -- Cbrn crime scenes -- Underwater and underground crime scenes -- Subject index.