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Cover of "Spitz and Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death: Guidelines for the Application of Pathology to Crime Investigation, Fifth Edition," edited by Werner U. Spitz and Francisco J. Diaz.
Cover of the book 'Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques, Fourth Edition' edited by Stuart H. James, Jon J. Nordby, and Suzanne Bell, featuring imagery related to forensic investigation.
Book cover of 'Practical Homicide Investigation' Fifth Edition by Vernon J. Geberth, featuring a police badge graphic and the CRC Press logo. It covers tactics, procedures, and forensic techniques.
Book cover of 'Forensic Medicolegal Injury and Death Investigation' by Mary H. Dudley, featuring a woman analyzing crime scene evidence in a field, with numbered markers and a body bag.
Cover of the book 'Knight's Forensic Pathology, Fourth Edition' by Pekka Saukko and Bernard Knight, featuring illustrations of decomposing bodies at various stages. Published by CRC Press.
Cover of 'The Human Bone Manual' featuring various human bones including a skull, with authors Tim D. White and Pieter A. Folkens listed.
Cover of 'Death Investigator's Handbook' by Louis N. Eliopulos, featuring a skull illustration and the text 'Expanded and Updated Edition.'
Cover of 'Sudden, Unexplained Infant Death Investigation' featuring words like 'cause,' 'death,' 'manner,' and 'scene' in a word cloud format. Includes CDC logo and Department of Health and Human Services information.
Human Osteology Third Edition book cover featuring a human skull profile on a black background with authors Tim D. White, Michael T. Black, and Pieter A. Folkens listed.
Cover of "DiMaio's Forensic Pathology, Third Edition" featuring X-ray imaging, a hand with wounds, and bullet casings, by Vincent J.M. DiMaio and D. Kimberley Molina, published by CRC Press.
Cover of 'Color Atlas of the Autopsy' by Scott A. Wagner, Second Edition, featuring Vitruvian Man illustration.
Logo of the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators, featuring a caduceus with scales and the organization name.

“A medicolegal death investigator must be the most medically knowledgeable person at the scene to determine if further investigation is necessary”

-American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators

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