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The skeleton crew how amateur sleuths are solving America's coldest cases

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. The web sleuths pore over facial reconstructions (a sort of Facebo...

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Main Author: Halber, Deborah
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Cold cases (Criminal investigation) > United States.
Criminal investigation > United States > Citizen participation.
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Summary: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. The web sleuths pore over facial reconstructions (a sort of Facebook for the dead) and other online clues as they vie to solve cold cases and tally up personal scorecards of dead bodies. The Skeleton Crew delves into the macabre underside of the Internet, the fleeting nature of identity, and how even the most ordinary citizen with a laptop and a knack for puzzles can reinvent herself as a web sleuth.
Physical Description:285 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-285).
ISBN:9781451657586 (hbk.)
1451657587 (hbk.)
Author Notes:Deborah Halber is a Boston-based journalist whose work has appeared in The Boston Globe ; Technology Review; the interactive, illustrated digital magazine Symbolia; and many university publications. A native New Yorker, she received her BA from Brandeis University and an MA in journalism from New York University. A member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Mystery Writers of America, and the National Association of Science Writers, she has chronicled breakthroughs in neuroscience, molecular biology, energy, and technology at MIT and Tufts, but is most enthralled with "quantum weirdness," worm longevity, cell undertakers, and the properties of snail slime. Visit her at DeborahHalber.com.

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