cold cases (criminal investigation)

When seventeen-year-old Piper Gray starts a true crime podcast investigating a seventeen-year-old murder cold case, she puts her life in danger as she digs deep into the mysteries of the past.

"This book investigates three historical cold cases including one of the biggest art heists in history, the disappearance of Walter Collins, and three prisoners' escape from Alcatraz"--OCLC.

Beatrice Fletcher, great-grandniece of famous mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, is obsessed with the unsolved mysteries and murders of Cabot Cove, Maine, but this time the case becomes personal when her best friend Jackson disappears and she must rely on the help of three students from the elite Broadmoor Academy to find him.

"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. I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don't even know how I got here, to this place, to this point. Something is happening to me lately. I'm drinking too much. My sheets are soaking wet when I wake up from nightmares of decaying corpses. I order another drink and swig it, trying to forget about the latest case I can't shake. Crime-solving for me is more complex than the challenge of the hunt, or the process of piecing together a scientific puzzle. The thought of good people suffering drives me, for better or worse, to the point of obsession. 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. It's only been recently that it feels like all that suppressed darkness is beginning to seep out. When I look back at my long career, there is a lot I am proud of. I have caught some of the most notorious killers of the twenty-first century and brought justice and closure for their victims and families. I want to tell you about a lifetime solving these cold cases, from Laci Peterson to Jaycee Dugard to the Pittsburg homicides to, yes, my twenty-year-long hunt for the Golden State Killer. But a deeper question eats at me as I ask myself, at what cost? I have sacrificed relationships, joy-even fatherhood-because the pursuit of evil always came first. Did I make the right choice? It's something I grapple with every day. Yet as I stand in the spot where a young girl took her last breath, as I look into the eyes of her family, I know that, for me, there has never been a choice. "I don't know if I can solve your case," I whisper. "But I promise I will do my best." It is a promise I know I can keep"--.

The gripping story of a young woman's murder in Rochester, NY, unsolved for over two decades, brilliantly investigated and reconstructed by her stepsister.

"The Paterson Police Department has created a cold case division, and they want to hire the private investigators known as the K Team to look into the crimes. Their first cold case hits home for the K Team. A decade ago, at Laurie's tenth high school reunion, two of their friends simply ... vanished. With no leads, the case went cold. As the team starts to delve deeper into the events leading up to that night--reopening old wounds along the way--the pieces start to come together. But someone wants to stop them from uncovering the truth behind the disappearance, by any means necessary"--.

Presents the unsolved case of how inmates Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.

"Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her. But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has disappeared, on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary of the deaths of Andie Bell and Sal Singh. The police won't do anything about it. And if they won't look for Jamie then Pip will, uncovering more of her town's dark secrets along the way . . . and this time everyone is listening. But will she find him before it's too late?"--Amazon.com.

Laurie Moran, widowed when her husband was murdered five years ago, is again dealing with murder, but this time as producer of a true-crime cold-case television show, and it is sure to be a hit, but when the filming begins it is clear that each character is hiding secrets, and what if her husband's killer, witnessed by her three-year old son Timmy, is still watching.

Presents the unsolved case of how inmates Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.