The skeleton crew : how amateur sleuths are solving America's coldest cases / Deborah Halber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halber, Deborah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold cases (Criminal investigation)--United States.

Cold cases (Criminal investigation).

Criminal investigation--United States--Citizen participation.

Criminal investigation.

Political participation.

United States.

Physical Description:

285 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1451657587

9781451657586

OCLC:

857370318

Publisher Number:

99959466376