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Pioneering forensic techniques solve a murder in remote British Columbia and shape a career in crime scene investigation.
In 1973, Robert James Gould is murdered and his body burned at his wilderness camp. Five years later, the RCMP bring Mark Skinner — a young forensic anthropologist — into the investigation to search the crime scene.
Death Beneath the Moss describes how Skinner’s use of forensic archaeological techniques to recover and decipher thousands of bone fragments and other evidence helped to reconstruct the killer’s behaviours and ultimately led to an arrest and conviction. Lessons learned from this case shaped subsequent investigations, both in Canada and internationally, including at mass graves in Bosnia, East Timor, and Afghanistan.
In 1973, Robert James Gould is murdered and his body burned at his wilderness camp. Five years later, the RCMP bring Mark Skinner — a young forensic anthropologist — into the investigation to search the crime scene.
Death Beneath the Moss describes how Skinner’s use of forensic archaeological techniques to recover and decipher thousands of bone fragments and other evidence helped to reconstruct the killer’s behaviours and ultimately led to an arrest and conviction. Lessons learned from this case shaped subsequent investigations, both in Canada and internationally, including at mass graves in Bosnia, East Timor, and Afghanistan.
Price: $19.99
Pages: 280
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Publication Date:
06 April 2027
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781459757332
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
TRUE CRIME / Forensics, True crime: cold cases / long-unsolved crimes, TRUE CRIME / Murder / General, TRUE CRIME / Historical, Forensic science
Mark Skinner is a retired biological anthropologist and professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University. Stimulated by local crime scene work, he became the first person in Canada to receive Diplomate status in forensic anthropology and spent thirty-five years practising forensic archaeology at domestic and international sites. He lives in Vancouver.