The sensational story behind one the first criminal investigations to use forensic analy

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Contents

Introduction

1. Omens

2. Legends

3. The Englishman

4. Everything Is Gone

5. Moving Day

6. Missing

7. Case Histories

8. The Search

ILLUSTRATIONS A

9. Strong Stuff

10. Grewsome Clews

11. The Sweating

12. The Woman in Black

13. Cell 21

14. Spring and Summer

15. Fixed Opinions

16. The Rustling Noise

17. The Morbid Women

18. Trained Beasts

19. Trial by Newspaper

20. The Throwing Mania

21. The Widow

ILLUSTRATIONS B

22. The Experiments

23. Cries and Whispers

24. The Experts

25. Autumn

26. The Kiss

27. Sideshows

28. A Game of Tag

29. Just a Plain Domestic Girl

30. The Many Mrs. Luetgerts

31. Soap and Bones

ILLUSTRATIONS C

32. Cigar Talk

33. Oratory

34. Twelve Men

35. Queer Reports

36. Telescopic Views

37. Aftermath

38. Editorials

39. Between Trials

40. Turbulence

41. The Ghouls

ILLUSTRATIONS D

42. Denials

43. Winters

44. The Verdict

45. Lives of Destiny

46. Prisoner 5969

47. Confessions and Eulogies

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

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