274pp+illustrations. The murder of Cad Bates was one of the first major cases for the Wisconsin Crime Laboratory. (Four years later, the crime lab would process the gruesome scene at Ed Gein's farm!). Edward Kanieski was convicted of the murder on circumstantial evidence, largely based on the crime lab's fibre analysis. 20 years later the sentenced was overturned.

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