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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593595688
ISBN-13
9780593595688
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21070487918
Product Key Features
Book Title
Scientist and the Serial Killer : the Search for Houston's Lost Boys
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Sociology / General, Murder / Serial Killers
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
True Crime, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
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1.4 in
Item Weight
27.7 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in
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2024-035565
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"Lise Olsen is not only a masterful investigative reporter, she's one hell of a storyteller. Her writing jumps off the page. Her sentences are completely dramatic, her character descriptions spot on. I felt a pit in my stomach reading The Scientist and the Serial Killer ." --Skip Hollandsworth, New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Assassin " The Scientist and the Serial Killer is a brilliant work of reporting and writing as Olsen takes readers on a dark voyage into a mass murder that has haunted Houston for decades. But instead of stopping there, she recounts how one brave forensic investigator finally brought light to families whose private investigations and perpetual grief had been repeatedly ignored by authorities. Olsen's mystery story is impossible to put down, but the families' losses and her heroine's persistence will stay with you forever." --Mimi Swartz, author of Ticker, "Lise Olsen is not only a masterful investigative reporter, she's one hell of a storyteller. Her writing jumps off the page. Her sentences are completely dramatic, her character descriptions spot on. I felt a pit in my stomach reading The Scientist and the Serial Killer ." --Skip Hollandsworth, New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Assassin " The Scientist and the Serial Killer is a masterwork of crime writing. Lise Olsen has taken a fifty-year-old story and made it new and fresh and terrifyingly real. I hate to use the old cliché, but for anyone interested in crime narratives this is a must-read. Her brilliantly organized pages turn themselves." --S. C. Gwynne, author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell "A murder mystery in reverse, The Scientist and the Serial Killer traces the hunt for an essential type of justice: identity. This is the story of a scientist's obsession to bring that justice to the families of a killer's unknown victims, five decades after they vanished. No surprise that Olsen, who has devoted much of her celebrated career in journalism to the missing, simultaneously delivers a fascinating history of forensic science." --Claudia Rowe, author of The Spider and the Fly "The once forgotten murder victims of a Houston serial killer are lost no more, their stories brought achingly to life in an act of redemptive recognition that is both haunting and heartbreaking. The Scientist and the Serial Killer is essential reading, for the depth and precision of its meticulous reporting, for its gripping storytelling, and for its insistence on providing the long-overdue justice these Lost Boys never received in their own brief lives. Its elegiac power has stayed with me long after the final pages." --Ellen McGarrahan, author of Two Truths and a Lie "Lise Olsen has expertly crafted a fascinating, in-depth examination of one of the most horrific serial-killing sprees in U.S. history and the dedicated forensic scientist who unraveled a mystery that haunted Houston for decades. A must read for CSI and true crime fans, The Scientist and the Serial Killer kept me up late into the night. Highly recommended." --Kathryn Casey, author of In Plain Sight "A masterclass in uncovering long-buried truths, The Scientist and the Serial Killer illuminates one of Houston's darkest murder cases. Olsen's account of Sharon Derrick's journey to restore the identity of these victims is revelatory and redemptive, with a page-turning narrative thrill." --Kirk Wallace Johnson, author of The Fishermen and the Dragon and The Feather Thief " The Scientist and the Serial Killer is a brilliant work of reporting and writing as Olsen takes readers on a dark voyage into a mass murder that has haunted Houston for decades. But instead of stopping there, she recounts how one brave forensic investigator finally brought light to families whose private investigations and perpetual grief had been repeatedly ignored by authorities. Olsen's mystery story is impossible to put down, but the families' losses and her heroine's persistence will stay with you forever." --Mimi Swartz, author of Ticker, "Lise Olsen is not only a masterful investigative reporter, she's one hell of a storyteller. Her writing jumps off the page. Her sentences are completely dramatic, her character descriptions spot on. I felt a pit in my stomach reading The Scientist and the Serial Killer ." --Skip Hollandsworth, New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Assassin " The Scientist and the Serial Killer is a masterwork of crime writing. Lise Olsen has taken a fifty-year-old story and made it new and fresh and terrifyingly real. I hate to use the old cliché, but for anyone interested in crime narratives this is a must-read. Her brilliantly organized pages turn themselves." --S. C. Gwynne, author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell "A murder mystery in reverse, The Scientist and the Serial Killer traces the hunt for an essential type of justice: identity. This is the story of a scientist's obsession to bring that justice to the families of a killer's unknown victims, five decades after they vanished. No surprise that Olsen, who has devoted much of her celebrated career in journalism to the missing, simultaneously delivers a fascinating history of forensic science." --Claudia Rowe, author of The Spider and the Fly "The once forgotten murder victims of a Houston serial killer are lost no more, their stories brought achingly to life in an act of redemptive recognition that is both haunting and heartbreaking. The Scientist and the Serial Killer is essential reading, for the depth and precision of its meticulous reporting, for its gripping storytelling, and for its insistence on providing the long-overdue justice these Lost Boys never received in their own brief lives. Its elegiac power has stayed with me long after the final pages." --Ellen McGarrahan, author of Two Truths and a Lie "Lise Olsen has expertly crafted a fascinating, in-depth examination of one of the most horrific serial-killing sprees in U.S. history and the dedicated forensic scientist who unraveled a mystery that haunted Houston for decades. A must read for CSI and true crime fans, The Scientist and the Serial Killer kept me up late into the night. Highly recommended." --Kathryn Casey, author of In Plain Sight " The Scientist and the Serial Killer is a brilliant work of reporting and writing as Olsen takes readers on a dark voyage into a mass murder that has haunted Houston for decades. But instead of stopping there, she recounts how one brave forensic investigator finally brought light to families whose private investigations and perpetual grief had been repeatedly ignored by authorities. Olsen's mystery story is impossible to put down, but the families' losses and her heroine's persistence will stay with you forever." --Mimi Swartz, author of Ticker, "Lise Olsen is not only a masterful investigative reporter, she's one hell of a storyteller. Her writing jumps off the page. Her sentences are completely dramatic, her character descriptions spot on. I felt a pit in my stomach reading The Scientist and the Serial Killer ." --Skip Hollandsworth, New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Assassin "A murder mystery in reverse, The Scientist and the Serial Killer traces the hunt for an essential type of justice: identity. This is the story of a scientist's obsession to bring that justice to the families of a killer's unknown victims, five decades after they vanished. No surprise that Olsen, who has devoted much of her celebrated career in journalism to the missing, simultaneously delivers a fascinating history of forensic science." --Claudia Rowe, author of The Spider and the Fly " The Scientist and the Serial Killer is a brilliant work of reporting and writing as Olsen takes readers on a dark voyage into a mass murder that has haunted Houston for decades. But instead of stopping there, she recounts how one brave forensic investigator finally brought light to families whose private investigations and perpetual grief had been repeatedly ignored by authorities. Olsen's mystery story is impossible to put down, but the families' losses and her heroine's persistence will stay with you forever." --Mimi Swartz, author of Ticker, "Lise Olsen's story of Houston's Lost Boys gripped me from the first page. In raw detail, she describes the battle between a dead serial killer who targeted teenaged boys and a forensic scientist who sought to identify the victims--a battle between evil and science, and science wins. Olsen is vivid writer, finely drawing the victims and their families, the police and the scientists, and mainly, the obsessed murderer and the equally obsessed forensic heroine. This is a triumph of investigative reporting." --Barbara Bradley Hagerty, New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Ben Home "A masterwork of crime writing . . . Lise Olsen has taken a fifty-year-old story and made it new and fresh and terrifyingly real. I hate to use the old cliché, but for anyone interested in crime narratives this is a must-read. Her brilliantly organized pages turn themselves." --S. C. Gwynne, author of the New York Times bestseller Rebel Yell "Lise Olsen is not only a masterful investigative reporter, she's one hell of a storyteller. Her sentences are completely dramatic, her character descriptions spot on. I felt a pit in my stomach reading this book." --Skip Hollandsworth, author of the New York Times bestseller The Midnight Assassin "Lise Olsen has expertly crafted a fascinating, in-depth examination of one of the most horrific serial-killing sprees in U.S. history and the dedicated forensic scientist who unraveled a mystery that haunted Houston for decades. . . . A must-read for CSI and true crime fans, this book kept me up late into the night." --Kathryn Casey, author of In Plain Sight "A master class in uncovering long-buried truths, this book illuminates one of Houston's darkest murder cases. Olsen's account of Sharon Derrick's journey to restore the identity of these victims is revelatory and redemptive, with a page-turning narrative thrill." --Kirk Wallace Johnson, author of The Feather Thief "This is essential reading, for the depth and precision of its meticulous reporting, for its gripping storytelling, and for its insistence on providing the long-overdue justice these Lost Boys never received in their own brief lives. Its elegiac power has stayed with me long after the final pages." --Ellen McGarrahan, author of Two Truths and a Lie "It's no surprise that Olsen, who has devoted much of her celebrated career in journalism to the missing, simultaneously delivers a murder mystery in reverse and a fascinating history of forensic science. But the most poignant aspect of this impressive work is its portrait of the secret lives of teen boys in the 1970s, when America was pivoting, for better or worse, between a postwar idyll and the wiser, less innocent world we live in today." --Claudia Rowe, author of The Spider and the Fly " The Scientist and the Serial Killer is a brilliant work of reporting and writing as Olsen takes readers on a dark voyage into a mass murder that has haunted Houston for decades. But instead of stopping there, she recounts how one brave forensic investigator finally brought light to families whose private investigations and perpetual grief had been repeatedly ignored by authorities. Olsen's mystery story is impossible to put down, but the families' losses and her heroine's persistence will stay with you forever." --Mimi Swartz, author of Ticker
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The true story of how one dedicated forensic scientist restored the long-lost identities of the teenaged victims of the "Candy Man," one of America's most prolific serial killers "A masterwork of crime writing . . . Lise Olsen has taken a fifty-year-old story and made it new and fresh and terrifyingly real."--S. C. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author of Rebel Yell Houston, Texas, in the early 1970s was an exciting place--the home of NASA, the city of the future. But a string of more than two dozen missing teenage boys hinted at a dark undercurrent that would go ignored for too long. While their siblings and friends wondered where they had gone, the Houston police department dismissed them as runaways, fleeing the Vietnam draft or conservative parents, likely looking to get high and join the counterculture. It was only after their killer, Dean Corll, was murdered by an accomplice that many of those boys' bodies were discovered in mass graves. Corll, known as the "Candy Man," was a local sweet-shop owner who had enlisted two teens to lure their friends to parties, where they would be tortured and killed. All of Corll's victims' bodies were badly decomposed; some were only skeletal. Known collectively as the Lost Boys, many were never identified and some remained undiscovered. Decades later, when forensic anthropologist Sharon Derrick discovered a box of remains marked "1973 Murders" in the Harris County Medical Examiner's office, she recalled the horrifying crime from her own childhood, and knew she had to act. It would take prison interviews with Corll's accomplices, advanced scientific techniques, and years of tireless effort to identify these young men. Investigative journalist Lise Olsen brings to life the teens who were hunted by a killer hiding in plain sight and the extraordinary woman who would finally give his unknown victims back their names and their dignity. With newly uncovered information about the case, The Scientist and the Serial Killer immerses readers in an astonishing story and reveals why these horrific events remain relevant decades later., Between 1971 and 1973, more than twenty-seven teenage boys disappeared from idyllic, tree-lined neighborhoods in Houston. This is the true story of how one dedicated forensic scientist finally identified the victims of the "Candy Man," one of America's most prolific serial killers., NATIONAL BESTSELLER . The true story of how one dedicated forensic scientist restored the long-lost identities of the teenaged victims of the "Candy Man," one of America's most prolific serial killers "A masterwork of crime writing . . . Lise Olsen has taken a fifty-year-old story and made it new and fresh and terrifyingly real."-S. C. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author of Rebel Yell Houston, Texas, in the early 1970s was an exciting place-the home of NASA, the city of the future. But a string of more than two dozen missing teenage boys hinted at a dark undercurrent that would go ignored for too long. While their siblings and friends wondered where they had gone, the Houston police department dismissed them as runaways, fleeing the Vietnam draft or conservative parents, likely looking to get high and join the counterculture. It was only after their killer, Dean Corll, was murdered by an accomplice that many of those boys' bodies were discovered in mass graves. Corll, known as the "Candy Man," was a local sweet-shop owner who had enlisted two teens to lure their friends to parties, where they would be tortured and killed. All of Corll's victims' bodies were badly decomposed; some were only skeletal. Known collectively as the Lost Boys, many were never identified and some remained undiscovered. Decades later, when forensic anthropologist Sharon Derrick discovered a box of remains marked "1973 Murders" in the Harris County Medical Examiner's office, she recalled the horrifying crime from her own childhood, and knew she had to act. It would take prison interviews with Corll's accomplices, advanced scientific techniques, and years of tireless effort to identify these young men. Investigative journalist Lise Olsen brings to life the teens who were hunted by a killer hiding in plain sight and the extraordinary woman who would finally give his unknown victims back their names and their dignity. With newly uncovered information about the case, The Scientist and the Serial Killer immerses readers in an astonishing story and reveals why these horrific events remain relevant decades later.
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