John Olsson

Introduction Part 1 1.The barrel killer 2. The bicycle murder 3. Heroin smuggling into a prison 4.Did the Da Vinci Code plagiarise the works of other authors? 5. The Diary that told all 6. The man with the baseball bat 7. Reputable barrister or manipulative Svengali? Part II 8. Murder or suicide? 9. What happened to Jenny 10. A case of medical disinformation 11. Strategies for code: a prisoner's dilemma 12. A genocide in Rwanda 13. Death threats in the Tropics 14. Fitted up by a 'professional': falsely accused 15. On death row Part III 16. Betrayed by a full stop 17. A bland paedophile 18. Prosecutor memo leads to abuse of process ruling 19. Letters from Anonymous 20. Return to sender 21. Was it Ernie or Ronnie? 22. The witness stated...but did he? 23. People trafficking and the language of trauma Glossary Bibliography Index

Tell kids not to worry. sorting my life out. be in touch to get some things.Instead of being a simple sms message, this text turned out to be crucial and chilling evidence in convicting the deceptive killer of a mother of two. Sent from her phone, after her death, tell tale signs announce themselves to a forensic linguist. Rarely is a crime committed without there being some evidence in the form of language.Wordcrime features a series of chapters where gripping cases are described - involving murder, sexual assault, hate mail, suspicious death, code deciphering, arson and even genocide. Olsson describes the evidence he gave in each one. In approachable and clear prose, he details how forensic linguistics helps the law beat the criminals.This is fascinating reading for anyone interested in true crime, in modern, cutting-edge criminology and also where the study of language meets the law.