Evidence Locker

<p>A ledger's ink a ladder's grain a truck axle's stamp; a manifesto's cadence a purple floppy's metadata a sneaker's worn lug; microspheres of factory paint a rental slip's timestamp a page's yellow microdots; a hotel teapot's residue two orange black boxes from the abyss a door handle's invisible cells-twelve ordinary objects that refused to forget. Evidence Locker follows twelve landmark investigations in which a single physical item anchored the arc from confusion to clarity. Each chapter shows how disciplined observation careful preservation and methodical analysis can turn things into evidence-and evidence into truth.</p><p></p><p>From Capone's ledgers and the Lindbergh ladder to the Oklahoma City axle and the Unabomber manifesto; from BTK's floppy and the Night Stalker's Avia sole to Green River's paint dust and a Connecticut woodchipper receipt; from printer microdots and a polonium-tainted teapot to AF447's raised recorders and the Golden State Killer's door-handle swab-the book distills what these cases teach: facts live in materials marks codes chemistry and context. Plain objects handled well outlast rumor.</p>