The cigar girl : the death of Mary Rogers (1841) -- Polar poisoning : the death of Charles Francis Hall (1871) -- Bloody murder : the death of Abby and Andrew Borden (1892) -- Help wanted : the murder of Nora Fuller (1902) -- The missing socialite : the mysterious disappearance of Dorothy Arnold (1910) -- Killing spree : the axeman of New Orleans (1918-1919) -- The wizard of whist : the murder of Joseph Bowne Elwell (1920) -- Married lovers : the murders of Edward Wheeler Hall and Eleanor Mills (1922) -- Hollywood murder : the case of William Desmond Taylor (1922) -- The wrong man : the murder of Father Huberut Dahme (1924) -- Pull a crater : the disappearance of Judge Joseph Force Crater (1930) -- The mad trapper : who was Albert Johnson? (1931) -- Preying on the poor : the Cleveland torso killer (1934-1938) -- Downed : the disappearance of Amelia Earhart (1937) -- The case of the missing activist : Lloyd L. Gaines (1939) -- Millionaire murder : the case of Sir Harry Oakes (1943) -- Georgette Bauerdorf : the mysterious death of an oil executive's daughter (1944) -- The black dahlia : the murder of Elizabeth Short (1946) -- Unknown child : the boy in the box (1957) -- Escape from Alcatraz : Frank Morris and the Anglin Brothers (1962) -- Presidential friend : the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer (1964) -- The millionaire's daughter : the murder of Valerie Percy (1966) -- Material man : the disappearance of Jim Thompson (1967) -- Cryptic killer : the case of the zodiac killer (1968-1969) -- The vanishing hijacker : the disappearance of D.B. Cooper (1971).
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Examines well-known cases of unsolved murders and suspected abductions over a period of over 160 years.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Cold cases.
International Standard Book Number
9780313376924
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cold cases (Criminal investigation), Case studies.