The skeleton crew : how amateur sleuths are solving America's coldest cases
Deborah Halber (Author)
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--Publisher's description
Print Book, English, 2014
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition View all formats and editions
Simon & Schuster, New York, 2014
Narrative non-fiction
285 pages ; 24 cm
9781451657586, 9781451657593, 1451657587, 1451657595
857370318
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