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Like most other states, Missouri has a growing list of cold cases. Three women vanish from a home in Springfield in 1992 on high school graduation night. A young woman is abducted in Ava and murdered after mowing a church cemetery. A 9 year-old disappears and her body is found in 1975. A nurse and her children are killed in their home in a quiet new subdivision, and two mothers have vanished without a trace. An elderly woman who has been featured on the album cover of a popular band is murdered in her Aldrich home. Just as solved cold cases have become popularized in a variety of television documentaries, Missouri cases are also becoming closed. DNA has been the smoking gun in one 25 year-old homicide and has sent a prominent businessman to prison. People are talking and in the case of a 15 year-old murdered in 1982, there have been convictions. Surveillance tapes and cell phones have been added to the arsenal of evidence. Files are being revised and the media is featuring their stories again. These are some of the victims cases and their families who press on and the organizations, detectives, and experts who support them.
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June 20, 2012
Jumping in and out of tenses, multiple grammatical errors, and common spelling errors dotted the five pages I could bring myself to read of this book. Introducing character names that have not been introduced as characters yet confused the reader and makes it seem as if the editing in this book was performed by a cut and paste maneuver and not re-read for clarity's sake. I would love the content, as some of these murders haven't been discussed for years, but I was too put off by the author (and confused by the writing) to try to conclude a chapter. One shouldn't have to mentally re-author the book in order to read a historical piece.
About the author
Barbara Kemm-Highton is a semi-retired teacher and this is her second true crime book. She has also written for The Forensics Examiner. At the request of families and friends, this anthology has been a tribute to the cold cases in and around the author’s home town of Springfield.
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