The Skeleton Crew : How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases (Hardcover)

from arielfl

I could not put this book down! It provides a fascinating look at the Doe Network, an online forum that helps to put names to bodies that are found without identification. The story of the Doe Network and it's volunteers is told within the umbrella story of a Jane Doe found in 1968 in Kentucky an...

from mstrust

Halber traveled throughout the U.S., visiting people who work on, and sometimes solve, cold cases. She met with detectives, coroners and forensic doctors, and relatives of the missing, but the focus of the book is primarily on amateur sleuths, the people who spend their time on websites devoted t...

from SheTreadsSoftly

The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases by Deborah Halber is a very highly recommended, fascinating anecdotal look at how amateurs are solving cold cases.Chances are you know of a cold case, an unsolved murder right in your own city. Startlingly, according to wh...

from rivkat

Episodic, not particularly satisfying account of the use of the internet, and slightly more centralized recordkeeping, to identify previously unidentified bodies, of which there are an astonishing amount in America. There are some successes; there'd be more if more jurisdictions put their data in...

from picardyrose

It was pretty creepy, really. These well-intentioned people are kind of creepy. Creepy.