No Stone Unturned: The True Story of Necrosearch International, the World's Premier Forensic Investigators Jackson, Steve

Steve Jackson follows NecroSearch International — a team of geologists, botanists, anthropologists, and cadaver dogs who hunt for bodies no one else can find. Bodies buried decades ago. Bodies hidden in mineshafts, ditches, forests, concrete. These are the cold cases that haunt detectives, the missing persons who vanished without a trace. NecroSearch uses soil chemistry, plant succession, and ground-penetrating radar to locate what killers thought they'd hidden forever. Jackson weaves together multiple investigations — from a woman murdered by her husband to victims of serial killers — showing how this unlikely group of scientists turned forensics into an art form. The prose is methodical, detailed, occasionally grim, but always gripping. If you're drawn to true crime that digs deeper than sensationalism, that respects the science and the victims, this is essential reading.