01204cam a2200229 4500 545753862 TxAuBib 000000s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780307279088 0307279081 TxAuBib Starr, Douglas. Killer of Little shepherds : True Crime Story and The Birth of Forensic Science. Vintage, 2010. 300 pages. At the End of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joshph Vacher terroriezed the french country side, eluding authorities for years, and murdering twice as many victims as Jack the Ripper. Here, douglas Starr revisits Vacher's infamous crime wave, interweaving the story of the two men who eventually stopped him-prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne, the era's most renowned criminologist. In dramatic detail, Starr show how Lacassagne and his colleagues wete developing forensic science as we know it. Building to a gripping courtroom denouement/. Adi;t. Adult. Murders, killers, forensic forensic Science. Murder. France.