num_pages: 314
description: Paul Mones, author of the acclaimed When a Child Kills, presents the first in-depth account of the pursuit and capture of "The Southside Strangler," based on extensive interviews and a graphically detailed examination of the evidence. STALKING JUSTICE focuses on the heroic efforts of the lone investigator who, by using his gut instincts and twenty-first-century technology, ended the vicious rampage of an elusive killer.Detective Joe Horgas suspected that Susan Tucker's murder was connected to a similar case nearly four years earlier-a murder to which another man had already confessed. Horgas's theories were dismissed by superiors and colleagues alike; undaunted, he developed his own leads, and ultimately targeted a suspect. But he had nothing except semen stains from the crime scene to tie his suspect to the murder-nothing but a genetic code that, once deciphered, would break open the case. In a historic breakthrough for the U.S. criminal justice, DNA testing would be used to catch a killer.
language: English
title: Stalking Justice: The Dramatic True Story of the Detective Who First Used DNA Testing To Catch a Serial Killer
titlecomplete: Stalking Justice: The Dramatic True Story of the Detective Who First Used DNA Testing To Catch a Serial Killer
genres: Crime, True Crime, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 36
publisher: Pocket Books