Inside 'The Murder Room'

The murder room
The cover of "The Murder Room" by Michael Capuzzo.
Image courtesy of the Penguin Group

Once a month, in a Victorian dining room in Philadelphia, the members of the Vidocq Society, a collection of detectives and forensic specialists, gather to examine cold case murders. Writer Michael Capuzzo, author of a new book on the group, calls it a CSI to the 10th power, only real.

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