The kidnapping and murder of Little Skeegie Cash : J. Edgar Hoover and Florida's Lindbergh case / Robert A. Waters and Zack C. Waters ; Michele Myatt Quinn, cover design.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waters, Robert Alvin, 1944-

Contributor:

Waters, Zack C., 1946-

Quinn, Michele Myatt.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murder--Investigation--Florida.

Murder.

Kidnapping--Florida--History.

Kidnapping.

Murder--Florida--History.

Cash, James Bailey, Jr.

Cash, James Bailey.

McCall, Franklin Pierce.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Informed by thousands of pages of newly released FBI files, The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash tells the gripping story of the only crime investigated by J. Edgar Hoover himself, the sensational 1938 murder of a five-year-old boy from the Florida Everglades.In his long and storied career, J. Edgar Hoover investigated only one case personally, the 1938 kidnapping and murder of five-year-old Floridian James "Skeegie" Cash. What prompted the director himself to fly from Washington, DC, to a rain-drenched hamlet on the edge of the Everglades? Congress had slashed

Contents:

The lost boy

We have the child

An obscure country merchant

Call in all the spies

Searching for LittleSskeegie

The greatest manhunt ever seen in Florida

Interrogating the carpenter

The paperboy

Sheriff of Dade County

Politics and peccadillos

A roll of money as big as my head

Found

Skeegie's funeral

The most cold-blooded thing I ever heard of

Time runs out.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8745-5

OCLC:

871258262