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How to Solve a Mystery

Forensic Pathology and Toxicology

Bone up on legal procedures

American Academy of Forensic Science
The American College of Forensic Examiners
National Association of Medical Examiners
Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner
Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine - Australia

Examine the body

Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners
American Society of Forensic Odontology
Forensic Anthropology Center - The University of Tennessee
Forensic Entomology
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Other Infant Death (OID)

Consider the environment

CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Environmental Protection Agency
National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory
Natural Hazards Center - University of Colorado

Know your poisons

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - HHS
Erowid's Psychoactive Vaults
FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Society of Toxicologic Pathology
Toxnet - National Library of Medicine
UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program - University of California

Study the masters

Sherlockian.net - the Sherlock Holmes web portal
Rudolf Virchow and the Recognition of Alveolar Echinococcois - CDC, Emerging Infectious Diseases

Forensic Pathology: A Comprehensive Guide - additional useful links

Thanks to Jennifer Prutsman-Pfeiffer, forensic anthropologist, for help in compiling links for this page.