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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505 0 |a Prologue: The well driller -- The ultimate identity crisis -- You can disappear here -- It's the ethernet, my dear Watson -- Ghost girls -- Bring out your dead -- Inside Reefer 2 -- The perks of being ornery -- Seekers of lost souls -- How to make a John Doe -- Finding Bobbie Ann -- Quackie is dead -- The head in the bucket -- The hippie and the lawman -- The oldest unsolved case in Massachusetts -- Relief, sadness, success -- Epilogue. 
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