The Real Silent Witnesses

By: Wensley Clarkson, Nigel McCrery - foreword

Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe

With a foreword by Nigel McCrery, creator of Silent Witness.

Going beyond the popular TV show, this is the true story of forensic science from those who solve crimes without witnesses.

How do you identify a serial killer?

What are the tell-tale signs of guilt?

Can we now solve the unsolvable?

Since even before the first season of Silent Witness in 1996, forensic science has played an increasingly important role in the investigation of violent crimes.

With a boom in cold-blooded cases throughout the 1980s, police began to rely on DNA evidence to help them find perpetrators, and since then forensic science has taken off as a powerful tool in solving murders. Best-selling true-crime author Wensley Clarkson takes us beyond the headlines to examine the real-life stories where forensics have played a crucial role. He speaks to experts who have worked on the most gruesome, most chilling and most shocking crime scenes and explains how notorious criminal cases from across the world were solved.

And he shows how the silent witness is often the one who screams the loudest.

©2021 Wensley Clarkson (P)2021 W F Howes

Well narrated and informative overview

A comprehensive and up to date overview of the current state of forensic science as applied to criminal investigations. With case examples - mostly from the UK, but also from the USA.
Very good narration with appropriate phrasing, intonation and emotion.
Easy to listen to.

Annoying accents

The content was fine although some times lacking a little focus. Not the worst forensic book I’ve listened to but certainly not the best either.

The narrator has a fine mellifluous voice. Unfortunately, for some reason he decided that he needs to perform all direct quotes in what he presumes is an accurate accent for the speaker. Apparently, he thinks that everyone in the US speaks with a stereotypical New Yawker accent. (And not a good one at that.) I cringed every time he quoted an American. I can only imagine what speakers of the other accents he attempts think about those accents.