The Skeleton Crew
Subtitle: How amateur sleuths are solving America's coldest cases
By: Deborah Halber
Edition: Large Print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press Large Print Crime Scene
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9781410471772
Subjects: Citizen participation; TRUE CRIME; Large type books; Criminal investigation; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); General
Description: The Skeleton Crew provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes-wannabes who race to beat out law enforcement -- and one another -- at matching missing persons with unidentified remains. In America today, upwards of forty thousand people are dead and unaccounted for. These murder, suicide, and accident victims, separated from their names, are being adopted by the bizarre online world of amateur sleuths. It's DIY CSI by ordinary citizens equipped only with laptops and a knack for puzzles.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-507).
Table of contents: title: Prologue: The well driller; title: The ultimate identity crisis; title: You can disappear here; title: It's the ethernet, my dear Watson; title: Ghost girls; title: Bring out your dead; title: Inside Reefer 2; title: The perks of being ornery; title: Seekers of lost souls; title: How to make a John Doe; title: Finding Bobbie Ann; title: Quackie is dead; title: The head in the bucket; title: The hippie and the lawman; title: The oldest unsolved case in Massachusetts; title: Relief, sadness, success; title: Epilogue.