Bibliograph

The skeleton crew, how amateur sleuths are solving America's coldest cases, Deborah Halber

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The skeleton crew, how amateur sleuths are solving America's coldest cases, Deborah Halber

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The skeleton crew

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

857370318

Responsibility statement

Deborah Halber

Sub title

how amateur sleuths are solving America's coldest cases

Summary

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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