Evidence for Murder: How Physics Convicted a KillerWhen Australian model Caroline Byrne's crumpled body was discovered at the base of a cliff known as the Gap - a famous Sydney landmark and popular suicide spot - it was easy for both the public and police to assume her death was suicide. With no official crime scene established, no measurements or photographs taken into evidence, and no police l... |
Contents
The night of 7 June | 3 |
We dont investigate | 33 |
Taskforce | 43 |
Gathering | 62 |
PHYSICS THE EVIDENCE FOR MURDER | 74 |
Pyramid | 102 |
Spearthrow | 126 |
The Tedeschi | 143 |
Powderlys | 157 |
THE TRIAL OF GORDON | 175 |
evidence | 266 |
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