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The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases
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Include books by the same authorThe Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away with It
Jamie Bartlett · 320 pages
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
John Grisham · 360 pages
John Grisham's first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was
Murder in Greenwich
Mark Fuhrman, Stephen Weeks · 432 pages
"The night of October 30, 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was bludgeoned and stabbed ... The golf club that killed Martha came from the house of Thomas and Michael Skakel, two boys who had been with Martha the night she died. Wealthy and prominent in their own right, the Skakels were related to the Kennedys ... When the police started looking closely at the Skakels' involvement, the family re
The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
Michael Capuzzo · 448 pages
Autobiographical The story of some retired Phila Detectives and Police and a Forensic sculptor. They solve cold cases and at the time of the writing were on the case of the Boy in the Box, which is a still unresolved murder or a still unknown boy found in 1957. This book also tells the story of the Vidocq Society as they are called
A Cast of Killers
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick · 336 pages
Black Dahlia Avenger
Steve Hodel · 481 pages
The author, a former Los Angeles police officer, recounts how he concluded that his late father, Dr. George Hodel, was the Black Dahlia Avenger, the serial killer responsible for the death of Elizabeth Short in 1947 and other murders. More than fifty years after what has been called the most notorious unsolved murder of the 20th century, the case has finally been solved. On January 15, 1947, the b
Portrait of a Monster: Joran van der Sloot, a Murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway Mystery
Lisa Pulitzer, Cole Thompson · 277 pages
In May 2005, Natalee Holloway disappeared from a high school trip to Aruba. Five years to the day later, 21 year old Stephany Flores Ramirez was reported missing in Lima, Peru. Implicated in both crimes was one young man, Joran van der Sloot. A 22 year old Dutchman, van der Sloot has become the subject of intense scrutiny by the media and the public in the years since 2005. He was arrested and det
The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco
Robert Graysmith · 552 pages
Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper
Geoffrey Gray · 319 pages
"Geoffrey Gray reopens one of the great unsolved criminal cases of the 20th century: the puzzling story of "D. B. Cooper," the only skyjacker never to be caught by authorities"--Provided by publisher.
After Etan: The Missing Child Case that Held America Captive
Lisa R. Cohen · 379 pages
On the morning of May 25, 1979, six-year-old Etan Patz left his apartment to go to his school bus stop. It was the first time he walked the two short blocks on his own.But he never made it to school that day. He vanished somewhere between his home and the bus stop, and was never seen again.The search for Etan quickly consumed the downtown Manhattan neighborhood where his family lived. Soon afterwa
The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles
Donald H. Wolfe · 416 pages
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Truth
Lawrence Schiller · 621 pages
In Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Lawrence Schiller thoroughly recreates every aspect of the complex case of the death of JonBenet Ramsey. A brilliant portrait of an inscrutable family thrust under the spotlight of public suspicion and an affluent, tranquil city torn apart by a crime it couldn't handle, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town uncovers the mysteries that have bewildered the nation.Why were the
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
Robert Kolker · 424 pages
"A literary account of the lives and presumed serial killings of five Craigslist prostitutes, whose bodies were found on the same Long Island beach in 2010. Based on the New York magazine cover story"--
He Killed Them All: Robert Durst and My Quest For Justice
Jeanine Pirro · 330 pages
"Former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro offers the transfixing true story of her tireless fifteen-year investigation into accused murderer Robert Durst for the disappearance of his wife Kathleen Durst"--
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
Kate Summerscale · 384 pages
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land, Jonathan Whicher of Scotland Yard. Whicher quickly believed the unbelievable--that someone within the family was
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
Maureen Callahan · 285 pages
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
Rosemary Sullivan · 400 pages
My Dark Places
James Ellroy · 353 pages
Jean Ellroy was murdered in 1958. Her body was dumped on a roadway in a run-down L.A. suburb. The killer was never found. The case was closed. It was a sordid back-page homicide that nobody remembered. Except her son. James Ellroy was ten years old when his mother died. His bereavement was complex and ambiguous. He grew up obsessed with murdered women and crime. His life spun hellishly out of con
If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children
Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris · 322 pages
"In If I Can't Have You, bestselling author Gregg Olsen and co-author Rebecca Morris investigate one of the 21st Century's most puzzling disappearances and how it resulted in the murder of two children by their father. Every once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before the eyes of the American public. The tragic story of Susan Powell and her murdered boys, Charlie and Braden, is t
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Paul French · 280 pages
On a frigid morning in January 1937, the mutilated body of a British schoolgirl is discovered at the base of the Fox Tower. Who could commit such a crime? Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumor and superstition. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of Pamela Werner's body sends a shiver through an already nervous Peking. Is it the
The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer
Gary L. Stewart, Susan D. Mustafa · 367 pages
"An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious--and still at large--serial killers in America. Soon after his birth mother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to searc
The Cases That Haunt Us
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker · 384 pages
Violent. Provocative. Shocking. Call them what you will...but don't call them open and shut. Did Lizzie Borden murder her own father and stepmother? Was Jack the Ripper actually the Duke of Clarence? Who killed JonBenet Ramsey? America's foremost expert on criminal profiling and twenty-five-year FBI veteran John Douglas, along with author and filmmaker Mark Olshaker, explores those tantalizi
Ted and Ann: The Mystery of A Missing Child and Her Neighbor Ted Bundy
Rebecca Morris · 256 pages
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
William J. Mann · 528 pages
Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to unpack the story of the enigmatic William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, and the diverse cast that surrounded him before he was murdered in 1922-- including three beautiful, ambitious actresses, the ruthless founder of Paramount locked