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The Killer of Little Shepherds : a True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas P. Starr is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Killer of Little Shepherds : a True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science about?
A riveting true crime story that vividly recounts the birth of modern forensics.<br> <br> At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher, known and feared as “The Killer of Little Shepherds,” terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities for years—until he ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne, the era’s most renowned criminologist. The two men—intelligent and bold—typified the Belle Époque, a period of immense scientific achievemen
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Douglas P. Starr
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307266194
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Law, True Crime, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.83 / 5 (3,460 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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