The botched train robbery at Tunnel 13 in the Siskiyou Mountains on Oct. 11, 1923, left four people dead and mangled car remains. To authorities, it was maddening that the crime couldn’t be solved. It wouldn’t have been but for the work of Edward O. Heinrich, known as “the Wizard” for his pioneering work solving criminal cases using forensic science. A scientist at a University of California-Berkeley laboratory, Heinrich analyzed the scant evidence left [...]
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