The Skeleton Crew
How amateur sleuths are solving America's coldest cases
by Deborah Halber
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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.
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The Skeleton Crew: How amateur sleuths are solving America's coldest cases
2014, Simon & Schuster
in English
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Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases
2014, Simon & Schuster, Limited
in English
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The Skeleton Crew: How amateur sleuths are solving America's coldest cases
2014
in English
- Large Print edition.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285).
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The Skeleton Crew provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes-wannabes who race to beat out law enforcement -- and one another -- at matching missing persons with unidentified remains. 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 by ordinary citizens equipped only with laptops and a knack for puzzles.
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