Status
Call number
Collection
Publication
Description
Violent, provocative, shocking. Call them what you will � but don�t call them open and shut.Did Lizzie Borden murder her own father and stepmother? Was Jack the Ripper actually the Duke of Clarence? Who killed JonBenet Ramsey? America�s foremost expert on criminal profiling and twenty-five-year FBI veteran John Douglas, along with author and filmmaker Mark Olshaker, explores those tantalizing questions and more in this mesmerizing work of detection. With uniquely gripping analysis, the authors reexamine and reinterpret the accepted facts, evidence, and victimology of the most notorious murder cases in the history of crime, including the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the Zodiac Killer, and the Whitechapel murders. Utilizing techniques developed by Douglas himself, they give detailed profiles and reveal chief suspects in pursuit of what really happened in each case. The Cases That Haunt Us not only offers convincing and controversial conclusions, it deconstructs the evidence and widely held beliefs surrounding each case and rebuilds them�with fascinating, surprising, and haunting results.… (more)
User reviews
Starting with Jack the Ripper and winding through Jon Benet Ramsey, each case has its own unique and interesting aspects. Though he does shed some light on possible suspects, still in each case we are left with not much more to go on and it looks doubtful that any of these cases will be resolved in the future. A good read for those interested in crime and human nature.
Jack the Ripper
Lizzie Borden
The Lindbergh Kidnapping
The Zodiac
American Dreams/American Nightmares
“The Black Dahlia” Elizabeth
“Lawrencia Bembenek” ‘Bambi’
‘The “Boston Strangler” Albert Henry DeSalvo
The Jon Benet Ramsey Murder
Although I ‘know’ all these cases, I have not done much reading on them. I prefer to read about less known cases. This made this a very interesting book for me. Also it is very informative book, John Douglas has ‘done the research’ on these cases and presents the facts as known.
In some cases he also reports what was ‘known’ or published in the papers.
He explains why these cases are still so well know even today, even though some of them were over a century ago. He details mistakes in the investigations and subjects them to modern profiling. He tells us what kind of man Jack the Ripper was. Did Lizzie Borden really kill her parents? Did Bruno act alone? All the questions that people ask about these cases.
I found this book to be very informative, interesting and would recommend it to True Crime fans.