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The skeleton crew : how amateur sleuths are solving America's coldest cases Cover Image Book Book

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

Halber, Deborah. (Author).

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.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9781451657586 (hbk.)
  • ISBN: 1451657587 (hbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781451657609 (ebk.)
  • ISBN: 9781451657593 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 1451657595 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    285 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-285).
Formatted Contents Note: 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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Subject: Cold cases (Criminal investigation) United States
Criminal investigation United States Citizen participation

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Flint River Regional Library System:
      Peachtree City Library 		363.25 HALBER ( Send Text)
 31022008538818 ADULT Available
Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System:
      Friedman Branch Library 		363.25 HAL ( Send Text)
 31019004453257 ADULT Checked out
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      Northwest Branch 		363.25 HALBER, DEBORAH ( Send Text)
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      Gainesville Branch 		363.2509 HALBER ( Send Text)
 31025003204948 NONFIC Available
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      Springfield Library 		363.25 HALB ( Send Text)
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      Porter Memorial Branch Library 		363.2509 HALBER ( Send Text)
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      Rabun County Library 		363.25 HAL ( Send Text)
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