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Case #2 - Joseph Williams

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Sometimes it's difficult to convince the court of the validity of scientific evidence.  Especially because the members of the court, the judge and the jury, will generally not have any scientific training themselves. Let’s go back in 1939 and see how hard it is to convince the court. It was approaching midnight on the night of May 21, 1939, when the body of Walter Dinivan, a sixty-four-year-old widower, was found in the living room of his apartment in Bournemouth on England’s south coast. His head had been bashed so that his skull was crushed. He was rushed to hospital, but he died there without regaining consciousness. So the problem in this case is that the only witness to the crime is the victim, and he’s dead. The autopsy, performed by Sir Bernard Spilbury, indicated that the killer had first attempted to strangle Dinivan, and when that had failed, had finished him off with a torrent of hammer blows to the head. Chief Inspector Leonard Burt of Scotland Yard studied the cri
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Case #1 - Roberto Calvi

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The case of the Italian banker, Roberto Calvi, is a very interesting topic, so I decided this to be my first article. It was forensic science that made it possible in this case to distinguish between murder and suicide. Roberto Calvi used to run an Italian bank called the “Banco Ambrosiano”, based in Milan, and he was nicknamed “God’s banker” because a lot of cash from the Vatican would flow through his bank. Now, there were some strange goings-on within the “Banco Ambrosiano” and it culminated with about $1.2 billion missing. These days we are kind of used to banks losing much bigger quantities of money than that, but back in the 1980s, $1.2 billion was a very serious amount of money indeed. So what is known is that Roberto Calvi disappeared from Milan on June 11, 1982, and he was found dead just over a week later in London. He was hanging by his neck from underneath Blackfriars Bridge. And what he had done is to get a false passport, shave off his moustache, adopt a false name
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