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Title

Cold cases : famous unsolved mysteries, crimes, and disappearances in America / Hélèna Katz.

Author

Katz, Hélèna, 1964-

Publication

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2010.

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Details

Description

xv, 401 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

Summary

• Murders and other violent crimes often leave an indelible mark on society. The 19th-century murder of "Beautiful Cigar Girl" Mary Rogers helped the then newly emerging tabloid papers become a fixture in the United States. The Federal Aviation Administration was spurred into requiring electronic screening of passengers and carry-on luggage by a series of highly publicized hijackings. Abductions of youth gave birth to Amber Alerts and advertising missing children on milk cartons. And popular TV shows such as Law and Order, CSI, and Cold Case document our fascination with police investigations, heinous criminals, and the complicated aftermath of their actions.
• This book examines 40 well-known cases of unsolved murders and suspected abductions over a period of nearly 170 years. Cases are organized chronologically to give readers insight into the evolution of criminal investigation techniques and forensics in the last century and a half. Later chapters detail how modern forensics were used in attempts to solve old cold cases or helped generate new leads. --Book Jacket.

Subjects

• Case studies
• Cold cases (Criminal investigation) > Case studies
• Crime > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references p. [395] and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The cigar girl : the death of Mary Rogers (1841) -- Polar poisoning : the death of Charles Francis Hall (1871) -- Bloody murder : the death of Abby and Andrew Borden (1892) -- Help wanted : the murder of Nora Fuller (1902) -- The missing socialite : the mysterious disappearance of Dorothy Arnold (1910) -- Killing spree : the axeman of New Orleans (1918-1919) -- The wizard of whist : the murder of Joseph Bowne Elwell (1920) -- Married lovers : the murders of Edward Wheeler Hall and Eleanor Mills (1922) -- Hollywood murder : the case of William Desmond Taylor (1922) -- The wrong man : the murder of Father Hubert Dahme (1924) -- Pull a crater : the disappearance of Judge Joseph Force Crater (1930) -- The mad trapper : who was Albert Johnson? (1931) -- Preying on the poor : the Cleveland torso killer (1934-1938) -- Downed : the disappearance of Amelia Earhart (1937) -- The case of the missing activist : Lloyd L. Gaines (1939) -- Millionaire murder : the case of Sir Harry Oakes (1943) -- Georgette Bauerdorf : the mysterious death of an oil executive's daughter (1944) -- The black dahlia : the murder of Elizabeth Short (1946) -- Unknown child : the boy in the box (1957) -- Escape from Alcatraz : Frank Morris and the Anglin Brothers (1962).
• Presidential friend : the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer (1964) -- The millionaire's daughter : the murder of Valerie Percy (1966) -- Material man : the disappearance of Jim Thompson (1967) -- Cryptic killer : the case of the zodiac killer (1968-1969) -- The vanishing hijacker : the disappearance of D.B. Cooper (1971) -- Missing sisters : the disappearance of Katherine and Sheila Lyon (1975) -- The union and the Mafia : the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa (1975) -- No hero : the murder of actor Robert Crane (1978) -- The milk carton kid : the disappearance of Etan Patz (1979) -- The missing medic : Kathleen Durst (1982) -- Paper boy : the disappearance of Johnny Gosch (1982) -- Fishing for a killer : the murder of Matthew Margolies (1984) -- Dog breeder : the case of Camilla Lyman (1987) -- Amber alert : the murder of Amber Hagerman (1996) -- Chld beauty queen : the murder of JonBenet Ramsey (1996) -- Rap race : the death of Tupac Amaru Shakur (1996) -- Rap race part two : the murder of Biggie Smalls (1997) -- Bringing down a congressman : the death of Chandra Levy (2001) -- Murder on the high seas : the case of basketball player Bison Dele (2002) -- The collar bomber : the death of Brian Wells (2003).

ISBN

• 9780313376924
• 0313376921
• 9780313376931 (ebook)
• 031337693X (ebook)

LCCN

^^2010004507

OCLC

• 542263532
• SCSB-11771344

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library