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Podcast: True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History
Episode: AMERICAN SHERLOCK-Kate Winkler Dawson
Description: Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiositiesābeakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of booksāsat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-year career. Known as the āAmerican Sherlock Holmes,ā Edward Oscar Heinrich was one of Americaās greatestāand firstāforensic scientists, with an uncanny knack for finding clues, establishing evidence, and deducing answers with a skill that seemed almost supernatural.Heinrich was one of the nationās first expert witnesses, working in a time when the turmoil of Prohibition led to sensationalized crime reporting and only a small...