Includes bibliographical references p. [395]-396 and index.
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)
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