Serious crimes are committed even in rural areas. This book offers a well-founded insight into the work of prosecutors, forensic medicine, and forensic psychiatry in solving capital offenses. Using real cases, it demonstrates how investigations are conducted, what clues point to perpetrators, and what legal, medical, and psychological issues play a role. Drawing on their many years of experience, the authors illuminate the challenges and limitations of crime investigation—objectively, fact-based, and engagingly. Biography (Nahlah Saimeh) Nahlah Saimeh studied human medicine and subsequently completed her specialist training in psychiatry. She then worked as a senior physician in the Department of General Psychiatry II at the Rheinische Kliniken of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. In 1999, she received her doctorate and became head physician of the Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Central Hospital in Bremen. Since 2004, she has been Medical Director at the Westphalian Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Lippstadt-Eickelborn. New product