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A review by pearl35
The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths are Solving America's Coldest Cases by Deborah Halber
3.0
Halber, a popular science writer, profiles the effect access to the internet has had on the growing community of people who, motivated by being touched by a crime, or just out of a love of solving puzzles, scour newspaper banks, local folklore, ancestry trees and police reports to match unidentified bodies with missing people, sometimes decades after their disappearances. I know very well the lure of crowdsourcing information, and how people can be motivated to do exhausting research work for free, so seeing it applied to cold cases is fascinating. Halber doesn't shy away from showing the price many of the participants pay--angry spouses, irritated local cops, grossed out relatives and victim's families who might not want to know all the details.