Douglas Starr’s The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science, is a fascinating journey examining the emerging field of forensics in the late 19th century.
Catching a serial killer necessitate the tools of modern, mass life which were just emerging in the 19th century. Medicine, psychology, police investigation, were all become more scientific. The telegraph allowed police departments to share information about crimes in disparate location. Physical details of career criminals were kept on file and widely shared.
Generally, what we now call the collection of data came into being; with an organized, and accessible body of traceable information, serial killers could no longer move from place to place, commit their terrible crimes, and go undetected, as this book clearly illustrates.
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