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The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases
The Skeleton Crew How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases Author:Deborah Halber DIY C.S.I: A fascinating look at the world of armchair detectives?or ?web sleuths??compelled by their personal obsessions and aided by Internet technology to solve cold cases like never before. — The Skeleton Crew explores an Internet subculture where amateur sleuths work to match missing persons with unidentified remains, solving previously cate... more »gorized ?cold cases? along the way. Such cases might languish within local police departments for decades, but now a growing cadre of web sleuths?scattered all over the globe and armed with little more than laptops?is changing the rules of the game.
The web sleuths are ordinary people with day jobs who spend their evenings combing through evidence, poring over facial reconstructions (a sort of Facebook for the dead), newspaper archives, missing person listings, and other databases, trying to match the unidentified with photos and other details of the missing. Many are the sort who excel at crossword and logic puzzles, for whom solving cases becomes a competitive sport, complete with jealousy and sore losers?and in this case, a scorecard of dead bodies. Against all odds, the web sleuths are succeeding in providing tips crucial to solving cases, some decades old, and demonstrating that the persistence and power of crowdsourcing can alter the way law enforcement has traditionally interacted with the public. The Skeleton Crew is an engrossing foray into a most curious treasure hunt.« less
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