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1) Trail of the lost: the relentless search to bring home the missing hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When three young men vanish from the Pacific Crest Trail, a former park ranger launches an investigation with an eclectic team of amateurs who are determined to solve cases by land and by screen and find their hardships bearing strange fruits—ones that lead them to places and people they never saw coming.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A gripping expose of a notorious cold case from 1978. When a popular local girl, 18-year-old Trudie Adams, disappeared one night while hitchhiking home from the surf club dance, her family, friends and community were devastated. As police began to investigate, the dark underbelly of the Sydney peninsula was exposed. Inspired by the Walkley Award-shortlisted #1 podcast and acclaimed ABC TV series, and containing information never previously revealed,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America's toughest cold cases and the rewards--and toll--of a life solving crime. People always ask how I am able to detach from the horrors of my work. Part of it is an innate capacity to compartmentalize; the rest is experience and exposure, and I've had plenty of both. But I had always taken pride in the fact that I can keep my feelings locked up to get the job done....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Attempts to solve the 100-year-old mystery about the fate of Rudolf Diesel, one of the world’s greatest inventors who disappeared on the eve of World War I just as his new internal combustion engine was on the verge of revolutionizing global industry forever.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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On October 22, 1989, in the small town of St. Joseph, Minnesota, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped at gunpoint. Twenty-seven years later, on September 3, 2016, Danny Heinrich led authorities to the boy's remains. What lies between is the riveting story of the search for Jacob Wetterling, told by his mother, Patty. With her trademark candor and down-to-earth honesty, she details the investigation as it unfolds, discusses her family's struggles,...
13) The last stone
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of how five skilled detectives navigated the deceptions of a prisoner who hid his role in the 1975 disappearance of two young sisters.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the author's remarkable counterintuitive healing journey in the aftermath of trauma, relating how she survived a violent abduction only to endure her family's denial, an abandonment that compelled her to learn her imprisoned attacker's story.
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