The archive / 3 case files

Forensics

A Japanese temple’s mermaid, said to have been caught in the eighteenth century, finally gave up its secrets to science.

The coroner thought an intelligence officer found dead in a padlocked holdall had probably been killed, but the police concluded he died alone.

Julia Wallace was killed in her Liverpool parlour while her husband searched for a man who did not exist, and his alibi became the case against him.

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