Download or read book Cold Case Chronicles written by Silvia Pettem and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COLD CASE CHRONICLES tells the stories of victims –– some missing, some murdered and some with changed identities. All are true, and each are mysterious in their own ways. The cases in this nonfiction narrative date from 1910 through the 1950s and include evolutions in forensics, as well as historical context in order to view the men, women and children through the lens of time. Included are recent theories on the cases of Judge Joseph Crater (missing from New York City in 1930) and film director William Desmond Taylor (shot in Hollywood in 1922). Other chapters help to unravel the mystique of individuals with changed identities. Included, too, is a case of aerial sabotage, the "Boy in the Box," and unusual disappearances of young women, along with child abductions and four missing adventurers –– Everett Ruess, Joseph Halpern, and Glen and Bessie Hyde. Readers are encouraged to draw their own conclusions, consider how detectives would handle these and other cases today, and learn how genetic genealogy brings new hope for the future.

Download or read book The Cold Case Chronicles written by Silvia Pettem and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COLD CASE CHRONICLES tells the stories of victims -- some missing, some murdered and some with changed identities. All are true, and each are mysterious in their own ways. The cases in this nonfiction narrative date from 1910 through the 1950s and include evolutions in forensics, as well as historical context in order to view the men, women and children through the lens of time.

Download or read book The Cold Case Chronicles Unsolved Mysteries and the Hunt for Justice written by ChatStick Team and published by ChatStick Team. This book was released on with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 🕵️‍♂️ Unlock the Secrets of the World’s Most Perplexing Cold Cases 🕵️‍♀️ The Cold Case Chronicles: Unsolved Mysteries and the Hunt for Justice by the ChatStick Team takes you deep into the fascinating world of unsolved crimes. From chilling disappearances to baffling murders, this book uncovers the stories behind the cases that have mystified law enforcement and the public for decades. With a blend of investigative analysis, the latest theories, and personal accounts from those impacted, The Cold Case Chronicles reveals the relentless pursuit of justice. Whether you're captivated by true crime or curious about the psychology of criminals, this book will immerse you in the darkest, yet most intriguing corners of human nature. 🔦 Step into the Shadows of Justice. Discover the Truth Behind the Unsolved. 🔦

Download or read book Cold Case Chronicles Omnibus Edition written by Kacie Clement and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One complicated small town. One fearless cop. A string of murders gone unchecked.Cracking decades-old cold cases have never been more dangerous. Notably, when the perpetrators are alive and well, and thriving in the mysterious town of Shadowbank, Mississippi.For one intrepid detective, digging up the past is now a risky full-time job. Still traumatized from her most recent case in Atlanta, Georgia, Detective Kamira Jackson pulls up stakes and moves to Shadowbank.Reconnecting with family, she must prove to herself and a skeptical town that she's got the grit to solve a slew of cold cases languishing on a dusty shelf.Join Detective Kamira Jackson as she dares to expose the seedy underbelly of a small community harboring one too many deadly secrets.The Cold Case Chronicles brings to life the mysteries of the past that threaten to wreak fresh havoc on an unassuming town steeped in a sinister mob presence.Dive into her first adrenaline-charged mystery, Mississippi Moonshine, and piece together the clues to this brazen execution-style murder. Kamira Jackson won't let the voices from the past be silent forever.

Download or read book Cold Case Research Resources for Unidentified Missing and Cold Homicide Cases written by Silvia Pettem and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cases in which all investigative leads appear to be exhausted are frustrating for both investigators and victims’ families. Cold cases can range from those only a few months old to others that go back for decades. Presenting profiles and actual case histories, Cold Case Research: Resources for Unidentified, Missing and Cold Homicide Cases illustrates how investigators can successfully apply resources that will enable them to reopen and solve cases gathering dust in the file room. Today’s investigators have found that, to solve cold cases, they need to be internet savvy and make the best use of the rapidly changing methodologies of the twenty-first century, but they also have to be time travelers and open the door to the past. This volume weaves together the nearly forgotten skill sets of traditional historical researchers with the latest online tools, including TLO, a premier investigative system; and NamUs, the revolutionary database for missing persons and unidentified remains. Along with practical applications, Cold Case Research gives investigators the tools they need to save time and money and to jump-start their cold cases, while keeping others from going cold in the future. Topics discussed include: Implementing cold case units People searches and working with databases Overlooked DNA in PKU cards The plight of the missing and unknown Applying historical and geographical context Online and off-line newspaper research Public and published records The use of volunteers Contact with co-victims Cold-case review teams and information-sharing resources Taking advantage of the media Using a thinking-outside-the-box approach, this volume helps fill major gaps in traditional cold case investigation training and techniques, enabling investigators to confidently reopen and crack the mystery of cases long thought unsolvable. Silvia Pettem was quoted in a January 29, 2012 article on missing persons in the Colorado Springs Gazette.

Download or read book A Cold Case written by Philip Gourevitch and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-07-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a prize-winning author and, in Elmore Leonard's words, "a knockout writer," comes a masterfully written and gripping tale of a determined investigator who reopens an unresolved case of double homicide in New York nearly thirty years after the brutal event. Philip Gourevitch vividly evokes the almost vanished gangland of New York in the sixties, and carries us deep into the lives and minds, the passions and perplexities, of two extraordinary men who embody opposing but quintessentially American codes of being—the lawman Andy Rosenzweig and the outlaw Frankie Koehler. With A Cold Case, Gourevitch masterfully transforms a criminal investigation into a searchingliterary reckoning with the urges that drive one man to murder and another to hunt murderers.

Download or read book When Evil Came to Good Hart written by Mardi Link and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The murder mystery that has confounded and fascinated people for over forty years has been given a whole new life. When Evil Came to Good Hart is a well-researched and well-written piece of nonfiction that holds the reader in its spell, just as it has the many writers, reporters, and law officers who have puzzled over it. My highest praise for Mardi Link's book is to say that it reads like a good novel, a real page-turner." —Judith Guest, author of Ordinary People and The Tarnished Eye In this page-turning true-life whodunit, author Mardi Link details all the evidence to date. She crafts her book around police and court documents and historical and present-day statements and interviews, in addition to exploring the impact of the case on the community of Good Hart and the stigma that surrounds the popular summer getaway. Adding to both the sense of tragic history and the suspense, Link laces her tale with fascinating bits of local and Indian lore, while dozens of colorful characters enter and leave the story, spicing the narrative. During the years of investigation of the murders, officials considered hundreds of tips and leads as well as dozens of sources, among them former secretaries who worked for murder victim Dick Robison; Robison's business associates; John Norman Collins, perpetrator of the "Co-Ed Murders" that took place in Washtenaw County between 1967 and 1969; and an inmate in federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, who said he knew who killed the Robison family. Despite the exhaustive investigative efforts of numerous individuals, decades later the case lies tantalizingly out of reach. It is still an unsolved cold case, yielding, in Link's words, forty years worth of "dead-end leads, anonymous tips, a few hard facts, and countless cockamamie theories."

Download or read book The Lazarus Files written by Matthew McGough and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply-reported, riveting account of a cold case murder in Los Angeles, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking suspect – a female detective within the LAPD’s own ranks. On February 24, 1986, 29-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in the home she shared with her husband, John. The crime scene suggested a ferocious struggle, and police initially assumed it was a burglary gone awry. Before her death, Sherri had confided to her parents that an ex-girlfriend of John’s, a Los Angeles police officer, had threatened her. The Rasmussens urged the LAPD to investigate the ex-girlfriend, but the original detectives only pursued burglary suspects, and the case went cold. DNA analysis did not exist when Sherri was murdered. Decades later, a swab from a bite mark on Sherri’s arm revealed her killer was in fact female, not male. A DNA match led to the arrest and conviction of veteran LAPD Detective Stephanie Lazarus, John’s onetime girlfriend. The Lazarus Files delivers the visceral experience of being inside a real-life murder mystery. McGough reconstructs the lives of Sherri, John and Stephanie; the love triangle that led to Sherri’s murder; and the homicide investigation that followed. Was Stephanie protected by her fellow officers? What did the LAPD know, and when did they know it? Are there other LAPD cold cases with a police connection that remain unsolved?

Download or read book The Science of Cold Case Files written by Katherine Ramsland and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "The Forensic Science of C.S.I." comes a new book on the absorbing true stories behind the pioneering A&E television series.

Download or read book Cold Case written by Stephen White and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a cold case… The unsolved double murder of two teenage girls. They vanished on a crisp autumn night more than decade ago. Their mutilated bodies were found the following spring beneath the melting snow of the Colorado Rockies. Now--at the request of their families--this cold case is being reopened. Clinical psychologist Alan Gregory has been asked to compile a psychological profile of the two girls. To probe their deepest secrets. To uncover the darkest truth. Even if it condemns the innocent as well as the guilty…

Download or read book The Passerby written by Thomas Ray Crowel and published by . This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penn County, Indiana: 1986 -- Eleven-year-old Trudie Brice is strangled to death in her home two weeks before Christmas. The crime goes unsolved. Twenty years later, writer Ray Krouse is looking for material for his next book and is mysteriously drawn to the little girl's gravesite, setting in motion a long and trying two-year investigation to find her killer. Can Ray convince the killer to step forward and confess? Inspired by true events, THE PASSERBY has all the twists and turns of a cold case murder investigation, but with an entirely unique and powerful ending.

Download or read book Journey to Justice written by Kacie Clement and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kamira Jackson doesn't like being left in the dark, especially when it comes to family.Twenty-five years ago, Gregory Campbell was convicted of a triple murder by an all-white jury. Although the case would make headlines and explode across social media in modern times, this was the norm a quarter-century ago.Defense attorney Ben Granger knows that Gregory was innocent. He'll need the keen investigative skills of Detective Kamira Jackson, however, if he wants to get his client off death row and into society.But while Kamira is distracted with overturning the conviction of a death-row inmate, her husband and the police of chief have teamed up to look for the new leader of the State Line Mob and keep guns out of Aunt Willie Mae's hands.Will Kamira succeed in helping write the wrongs of a past generation? And can her husband discover the identity of the new mob leader before she learns why her family is in danger?JOURNEY TO JUSTICE is the fifth book in the unputdownable Cold Case Chronicles series from Kacie Clement. If you like fast-paced action and determined heroines, then you'll love following the adventures of Detective Kamira Jackson as she solves cold cases in a small town!

Download or read book Unmasked written by Paul Holes and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "It’s a mark of the highest honor when I say it’s even more riveting than an episode of 'Dateline'." —The New York Times From Paul Holes, the detective who found the Golden State Killer, Unmasked is a memoir that "grabs its reader in a stranglehold and proves more fascinating than fiction and darker than any noir narrative." (LA Magazine) I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don’t even know how I got here, to this place, to this point. Something is happening to me lately. I’m drinking too much. My sheets are soaking wet when I wake up from nightmares of decaying corpses. I order another drink and swig it, trying to forget about the latest case I can’t shake. Crime solving for me is more complex than the challenge of the hunt, or the process of piecing together a scientific puzzle. The thought of good people suffering drives me, for better or worse, to the point of obsession. People always ask how I am able to detach from the horrors of my work. Part of it is an innate capacity to compartmentalize; the rest is experience and exposure, and I’ve had plenty of both. But I have always taken pride in the fact that I can keep my feelings locked up to get the job done. It’s only been recently that it feels like all that suppressed darkness is beginning to seep out. When I look back at my long career, there is a lot I am proud of. I have caught some of the most notorious killers of the twenty-first century and brought justice and closure for their victims and families. I want to tell you about a lifetime solving these cold cases, from Laci Peterson to Jaycee Dugard to the Pittsburg homicides to, yes, my twenty-year-long hunt for the Golden State Killer. But a deeper question eats at me as I ask myself, at what cost? I have sacrificed relationships, joy—even fatherhood—because the pursuit of evil always came first. Did I make the right choice? It’s something I grapple with every day. Yet as I stand in the spot where a young girl took her last breath, as I look into the eyes of her family, I know that, for me, there has never been a choice. “I don’t know if I can solve your case,” I whisper. “But I promise I will do my best.” It is a promise I know I can keep.

Download or read book Cherringham Cold Case written by Matthew Costello and published by BASTEI LÜBBE. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's winter in Cherringham, and petty thief Charlie Topper's life is in danger. Desperate, he reaches out to Jack and Sarah for help: last summer - during a robbery - he witnessed a cold-blooded murder, and now he fears the killer is after him. Can Jack and Sarah solve this very cold case - before the desperate murderer comes for them too? Episode 41 will be available for pre-order soon and will be out February, 25th 2022. Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, the detective series brings together an unlikely sleuthing duo: English web designer Sarah and American ex-cop Jack. Thrilling and deadly - but with a spot of tea - it's like Rosamunde Pilcher meets Inspector Barnaby. Each of the self-contained episodes is a quick read for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor, or when curling up with a hot cuppa. Co-authors Neil Richards (based in the UK) and Matthew Costello (based in the US), have been writing together since the mid-90s, creating innovative content and working on major projects for the BBC, Disney Channel, Sony, ABC, Eidos, and Nintendo to name but a few. Their transatlantic collaboration has underpinned scores of TV drama scripts, computer games, radio shows, and the best-selling mystery series Cherringham. Their latest series project is called Mydworth Mysteries.

Download or read book Cold Case Takedown written by Jessica R. Patch and published by Cold Case Investigators, 1. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposing a murderer is a deadly game. When cold case podcast host Georgia Maxwell's investigation into her friend's decade-old murder unveils corruption in small-town football, she's thrust into a deadly conspiracy. And it's put her on the radar of Colt McCoy--cold case unit chief and her high school sweetheart--who wants her help solving the crime. But every clue brings them one step closer to someone who will kill to keep the truth hidden... From Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith. Cold Case Investigators Book 1: Cold Case Takedown

Download or read book Murder in Battle Creek written by Blaine L. Pardoe and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, Daisy Zick was stabbed twenty-seven times at her home in Battle Creek, Michigan—and locals are still talking about the unsolved case today. On a bitterly cold morning in January 1963, Daisy Zick was brutally murdered in her Battle Creek, Michigan, home. No fewer than three witnesses caught a glimpse of the killer, yet today, it remains one of the state’s most sensational unsolved crimes. The act of pure savagery rocked the community, as well as the Kellogg Company where Zick worked. Here, Blaine Pardoe offers a detailed chronicle of this shocking and mysterious crime. With long-sealed police files and interviews with the surviving investigators, the true story of the investigation can finally be told. Who were the key suspects? What evidence do the police still have on this cold case more than fifty years later? Just how close did this murder come to being solved? Is the killer still alive? These questions and more are masterfully brought to the forefront for true crime fans and armchair detectives.

Download or read book Cold Case Flashbacks written by Janice Kay Johnson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can he help her remember a decades-old crime And escape a killer determined to keep her silent? Twenty-five years after witnessing the murder of her mother, Gabriella Ortiz returns home to face the past she’s repressed since childhood. Detective Jack Cowan is obsessed with solving the cold case and catching the killer who shattered her family—and his. As Gabby’s buried memories start to surface, can Jack shield her from a faceless killer who is intent on destroying the future they’re hoping to build? For fans of thrillers with: faceless killer hidden pas repressed memories From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served. For more action-packed stories, check out the other books in the An Unsolved Mystery Book series by Janice Kay Johnson: Book 1: Cold Case Colorado by Cassie Miles Book 2: Cold Case Reopened by Caridad Pi–eiro Book 3: K-9 Cold Case by Elizabeth Heiter Book 4: Cold Case Flashbacks by Janice Kay Johnson