Book Spotlight: The Killer Book of Cold Cases by Tom Philbin
The Killer Book of Cold Cases is a 2012 book by Tom Philbin that features more than two dozen cases that have never been solved or were considered cold cases for a long time until the crime was finally solved. Here are a few of the interesting cases Philbin covers in this book: -On July 21, 1957 in Hawthorne, California, a man robbed two teenage couples at gunpoint and raped one of the girls. After he left, he ran a red light and was pulled over by policemen Richard Phillips, 28, and Milton Curtis, 25. He shot each police officer three times, killing both of them and was finally arrested in 2003, thanks to the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). Gerald Mason, 69, was arrested in Columbia, South Carolina, and blamed his heinous acts on alcohol. -New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater disappeared in August 1930 while on vacation in Maine; he received a phone call, told his wife he was going to "straighten those fellows out" ...