THE CASES THAT HAUNT US by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
From Jack the Ripper to JonBenet Ramsey, the FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Sheds Light on the Mysteries That Won't Go Away
SCRIBNER - 2000
ISBN: 0684846004 - Hardcover
True Crime for explicit content

Reviewed by: Nancy Mehl, MyShelf.com
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John Douglas, a leading expert in the area of criminal profiling, looks at eight well-known and notorious murder cases in THE CASES THAT HAUNT US. Douglas uses his training and expertise to revisit the scenes of each of these grisly murders. Has justice really prevailed in every instance? Or, has righteousness turned a blind eye to a truth that has yet to be told? Douglas takes us through the cases of Jack the Ripper, Lizzie Borden, the Lindbergh Kidnapping, The Zodiac, The Black Dahlia, Lawrencia Bembenek, the Boston Strangler, and the case that has disturbed and angered a nation - the murder of JonBenet Ramsey.

Readers will find out why some investigators think that Albert DeSalvo was not the Boston Strangler. Douglas looks at the life of Lizzie Borden - did she really "take an axe and give her father forty whacks?" And, through his personal involvement in the confusing case of JonBenet Ramsey, Douglas is able to present circumstances related to this horrific crime that may have been misrepresented by the media or law enforcement officials. Douglas' perspective seems to open up some new and important interpretations of evidence that has so far failed to bring about the arrest of a suspect in the murder of the little girl in Boulder.

THE CASES THAT HAUNT US is a must read for those interested in criminal profiling, as well as for those who are intrigued by the murder cases that have left their bloody hand prints all over the fabric of our past.