NO STONE UNTURNED: The Story of NecroSearch International
Steve Jackson, . . Kensington, $24 (374pp) ISBN 978-1-57566-456-9
Founded in 1991 as a nonprofit forensic investigative team, NecroSearch International specializes in homicide cases shelved because of "corpus indelecti"—that is, a body cannot be produced as evidence that a murder has taken place. Coming from a wide range of backgrounds—geophysicists to "cadaver dog" specialists to chemists and rank-and-file cops—the members of NecroSearch combine their skills to produce the most proficient (and most exciting) detective work since Sherlock Holmes. They take the coldest cases and comb for hidden graves on rural hillsides, in suburban backyards and at the bottom of mud-choked riverbeds, searching for remains that have been buried anywhere from two to 20 years. (Or 70, as in the notorious Romanov family case.) Having sharpened his true crime teeth on
Reviewed on: 11/12/2001
Genre: Nonfiction