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BL
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955875
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b710245
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| Main Entry
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Katz, Hélèna,1964-
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| Title & Author
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Cold cases : : famous unsolved mysteries, crimes, and disappearances in America /\ Hélèna Katz.
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| Publication Statement
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :: Greenwood,, ©2010.
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xv, 401 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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031337693X
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: 9780313376931
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9780313376924
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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Examines well-known cases of unsolved murders and suspected abductions over a period of over 160 years.
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Cold cases (Criminal investigation), Case studies.
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Crime, Case studies.
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Cold cases (Criminal investigation)
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Crime.
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TRUE CRIME-- Murder-- General.
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| Dewey Classification
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364.152/30973
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HV6251.K384 2010eb
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