![]() SHAPIRO: Kate Winkler Dawson's new book about Oscar Heinrich is called "American Sherlock." She first read about him in an old encyclopedia of crimes in America. ![]() And the detective said, this is impossible. And it was 12 miles away from where the ear and the scalp had been found. And he's able to run a test on it and determine where the sand came from. WINKLER DAWSON: So inside the ear, he finds one grain of sand. SHAPIRO: So he has a time of death but still no body. So he estimated between 24 and 48 hours for the murder. There was no other signs of any other kind of beetles or anything else that would come later. WINKLER DAWSON: There was no other larva attached. They're typically the first insect to lay eggs on a decomposing body. ![]() SHAPIRO: In the course of his examination, Oscar Heinrich finds something telling - signs of blowflies. He started examining every part of it because there was no body. And so he looked at it, and he did his thing. I mean, there is no recovering from this. WINKLER DAWSON: And they really couldn't even tell until they talked to Heinrich whether this was a male or a female. SHAPIRO: It was discovered in a Northern California swamp, and police were stumped. KATE WINKLER DAWSON: Heinrich receives a package from the police, and it contains an ear with part of a scalp. Kate Winkler Dawson tells the story of this pioneering forensic scientist in a new book full of suspenseful - and let me just warn you - sometimes gruesome cases, like this one from 1925. Before "Columbo," before "Magnum P.I.," before "Monk," there was a real-life crime solver named Oscar Heinrich.
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