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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Three children entered a trusted summer camp. By morning, the promise of safety had become a question Oklahoma could not put away.The Tent at Camp Scott is a victim-centered historical true crime investigation into the 1977 deaths of Lori Farmer, Michele Guse, and Denise Milner at Camp Scott near Locust Grove, Oklahoma. Rather than turn the case into spectacle, Adrian Halden examines the evidence, the failed prosecution, the later forensic debate, and the institutional responsibilities that continue to shape how the case is remembered.The book reconstructs the setting and sequence of the first night: the Kiowa unit, Tent Eight, the distance from adult help, reported sounds during the storm, the trail toward the shower area, and the discovery that transformed a children's camp into a crime scene. It also considers the reported warning before the murders and the difficult question of what adults and institutions owe children before danger becomes certain.Physical evidence is examined with the same restraint. The red flashlight, sleeping bags, tape, footprints, hair comparisons, witness memory, the cave, and later DNA-related reporting are placed within the limits of what each could establish. The book separates confirmed fact from allegation, courtroom evidence from later interpretation, and investigative confidence from legal proof.Gene Leroy Hart became the central suspect. He was charged, tried, and acquitted in 1979. Later forensic reporting was described as strengthening the historical case against him, but it arrived after the trial and after his death. This account does not turn suspicion into conviction. It asks readers to hold the acquittal, the later evidence, and the remaining uncertainty together.Beyond the suspect debate, the investigation examines camp security, law enforcement under public pressure, the civil case, questions of preventability, media retellings, and the way public memory can preserve a case while narrowing the people at its center into evidence and theory.Written in a restrained, analytical style, this Oklahoma true crime account follows the case from the first search through the trial, later DNA discussion, and decades of retelling. It is intended for readers interested in cold cases, forensic evidence, disputed trials, institutional accountability, and the difference between a case that feels solved and one that was legally proved.The final responsibility is to remember Lori, Michele, and Denise as children whose lives mattered before the case became notorious-and to ask only what the record can bear. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Three names. Three unresolved murders. One road too often mistaken for an answer.Gloria Moody, Alberta Williams, and Ramona Wilson are remembered within one of Canada's most painful public records: the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls along the highways of northern British Columbia. Their cases are often spoken together because of geography, public memory, and official review. But connection is not the same as closure.Northern Highway Cold Cases examines the murders of Gloria Moody, Alberta Williams, and Ramona Wilson with the discipline unresolved cases demand. Gloria's 1969 homicide reaches back into a record shaped by distance, incomplete preservation, and a public language that had not yet formed around the crisis. Alberta's 1989 murder carries questions about movement, memory, and reported evidence that may never be fully resolved in public. Ramona's disappearance in 1994 and discovery near the Smithers airport area in 1995 reveal the damage delay can do to evidence, family trust, and public understanding.This is not a theory-driven retelling or a claim that one simple explanation solves three separate lives. Instead, the book studies what the public record can responsibly hold: timelines, geography, institutional response, family advocacy, transportation risk, public memory, and the limits of pattern evidence. It asks why these cases came to be remembered together while insisting that each woman remain more than a point on a map.Through careful analysis, the book separates confirmed fact, reported detail, interpretation, rumor, and public mythology. It considers the official investigative frame without treating that frame as a verdict. It recognizes the broader history of violence against Indigenous women and girls without using that history to invent certainty where the evidence does not provide it.The reading experience is investigative, reflective, and evidence-aware. It is written for readers who want true crime handled with restraint: attentive to victims, cautious with unresolved allegations, critical of institutional failure, and unwilling to turn grief into speculation.Northern Highway Cold Cases returns to three names that deserve to be remembered separately, even when the road has made them famous together: Gloria Moody, Alberta Williams, and Ramona Wilson.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One murder. One failed conviction. A Canadian case still defined by the limits of certainty.On June 9, 1959, twelve-year-old Lynne Harper disappeared near RCAF Station Clinton in Ontario. Two days later, her body was found in Lawson's Bush. The search for a missing child became a murder investigation, and suspicion quickly gathered around fourteen-year-old Steven Truscott, the boy who had given Lynne a bicycle ride on the day she vanished.The original prosecution turned time into the center of the case. If Lynne's death could be placed inside a narrow window, then proximity, witness fragments, and conduct could be arranged into a story of guilt. Truscott was tried as an adult, convicted of murder, and sentenced to death. His sentence was later commuted, but the conviction remained.The Lynne Harper Case follows the record from the base road and the school to Lawson's Bush, the Goderich courtroom, the commutation, the long public doubt, the recovered materials, and the forensic reassessments that weakened the original timing theory. It examines how stomach-content evidence, rigor, decomposition, later entomological analysis, witness uncertainty, disclosure concerns, and investigative narrowing shaped one of Canada's most consequential wrongful-conviction histories.This is not a sensational retelling and not a simple exoneration story. The book keeps two truths in view at the same time: Lynne Harper was murdered, and Steven Truscott's conviction did not survive. The 2007 Ontario Court of Appeal judgment quashed the conviction and entered an acquittal, but it did not identify Lynne's killer. The legal correction mattered deeply. It also left the original crime unresolved.Written in an analytical, evidence-aware style, this book separates confirmed fact, court-tested evidence, forensic opinion, witness testimony, allegation, inference, and public memory. It treats uncertainty not as a device for suspense, but as a discipline required by the record.For readers interested in Canadian true crime, wrongful convictions, forensic evidence, and the human cost of legal certainty built too quickly, The Lynne Harper Case offers a careful account of a murder that remains unsolved and a conviction that became a national warning.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A disputed death, a capital trial, and a record that refused to become certain.On May 30, 1933, Allene Lamson was found dead in the bathroom of her Stanford campus home. Her husband, David Lamson, soon became the center of a murder prosecution that drew intense public attention, divided opinion, and raised a question the courts could not finally answer: did the physical evidence prove assault, or did it leave room for accident The Allene Lamson Case examines one of California's most contested criminal cases of the 1930s with a careful eye on evidence, legal procedure, public memory, and the human cost of uncertainty. The first trial ended with David Lamson convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. That conviction was later reversed, and the case moved through further proceedings without producing a final surviving conviction. By 1936, the prosecution stopped. Allene Lamson's death remained unresolved.This account follows the case from the Stanford household before the fatal morning through the bathroom evidence, medical disputes, competing theories, motive claims, courtroom strategy, appellate reversal, retrials, and the long aftermath. It treats the bathroom not as a sensational set piece, but as a contested physical record-one asked to bear the weight of wounds, blood, movement, timing, accident theory, murder theory, and a death sentence.At the center of the book is a disciplined distinction between suspicion and proof. The prosecution argued that the scene showed intentional violence. The defense argued that an accidental fall remained a reasonable explanation. Experts disagreed. Newspapers amplified drama. Stanford's social world shaped public response. Jurors, judges, lawyers, and readers were left to confront the danger of turning narrative force into certainty before the evidence could safely support it.The book also keeps Allene Lamson at the center of the story. Her death began every later argument, yet the legal record often shifted attention toward the accused man, the disputed evidence, and the institutional drama around the case. This account resists reducing her to a courtroom theory, a symbolic victim, or a device in someone else's legal ordeal.Written in a restrained, evidence-aware style, The Allene Lamson Case is for readers interested in historical true crime, disputed forensic evidence, capital cases, wrongful-conviction questions, courtroom history, and unresolved deaths that demand more care than certainty allows.For anyone drawn to true crime that asks not only what happened, but what can responsibly be proven, this is a measured account of a case where the law moved far, the public wanted answers, and the record remained painfully unfinished.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In January 1931, Evelyn Foster was found near her burned car at Wolf's Nick, outside Otterburn in Northumberland. She was gravely injured, but still alive. Before she died, she reportedly gave an account of a male passenger, a requested journey toward Ponteland, a violent change in the route, and a fire that would leave investigators with one of the region's most unsettling unsolved cases.The Last Fare to Ponteland examines the Evelyn Foster case as a historical true crime investigation shaped by a powerful final statement, a damaged scene, and a record that never settled into certainty. At the center is a young woman connected to her family's garage and taxi work, moving through a rural world where trust, roads, and local knowledge mattered. A fare could be ordinary. A passenger could be familiar, unknown, harmless, or dangerous. In Evelyn's case, that ordinary work became the beginning of a public mystery.This book follows the route, the reported passenger, the fire, the medical and physical questions, and the inquest verdict of murder by person or persons unknown. It also examines what made the case so difficult: the failure to identify the alleged passenger, the questions raised by witness absence, the disputed meaning of the burned car, and the tension between Evelyn's reported words and the evidence that survived the fire.Rather than turning the case into legend or forcing a conclusion the record cannot support, Adrian Halden approaches the material with restraint. The book separates confirmed fact from inference, official finding from proof, and public memory from evidence. It considers the case for the stranger, the resistance to certainty, the damage caused by alternative theories, and the burden placed on a family left to live with doubt.The result is an atmospheric, evidence-aware account of a Northumberland true crime case that remains compelling because it refuses easy closure. Readers can expect a careful reconstruction of the road to Wolf's Nick, the vanished passenger figure, the institutional strain that followed, and the human cost of a death that became both a murder inquiry and an unresolved historical question.For readers interested in unsolved historical true crime, rural British cases, inquest evidence, and the difficult space between testimony and proof, The Last Fare to Ponteland offers a measured return to the fire, the road, and the unanswered question at the heart of Evelyn Foster's final journey. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A murdered journalist. A notorious accused man. A verdict that left Minneapolis without a final answer.On December 9, 1935, journalist and editor Walter Liggett was shot outside his Minneapolis home while his wife, Edith, and daughter, Marda, were nearby. Liggett had spent his final months using the Midwest American to challenge organized crime, liquor interests, political protection, and the civic arrangements he believed allowed the city's underworld to survive. His killing appeared targeted. The evidence, however, would not produce a conviction.Edith identified Isadore 'Kid Cann' Blumenfeld as the gunman. Prosecutors brought him to trial. A jury acquitted him, and no one was convicted of Liggett's murder. That legal outcome did not erase the conflict surrounding the case, but it created a permanent divide between public suspicion and court-tested proof.The Alley Behind Second Avenue reconstructs this historical true crime case from the life and disputes that preceded the shooting through the car in the alley, Edith's identification, the contested barbershop alibi, the prosecution record, courtroom doubt, and the political atmosphere surrounding Governor Floyd B. Olson and the Farmer-Labor movement. It asks not only who may have killed Liggett, but what can responsibly be concluded when motive, reputation, witness certainty, and institutional distrust point more strongly than the surviving record can prove.At the center are people whose lives cannot be reduced to evidence: Liggett as editor, reformer, husband, father, and combative public writer; Edith as both grieving widow and crucial witness; and Marda as a child present at the killing who later inherited its memory and archive. The book also follows how front pages, photographs, civic shame, and later retellings transformed an unresolved murder into a lasting Minneapolis story.Rather than treating acquittal as historical innocence or suspicion as a substitute for conviction, this evidence-aware investigation separates documented fact, allegation, inference, public memory, and legal uncertainty. It examines organized crime in 1930s Minneapolis, allegations of political protection, Prohibition's afterlife, journalism under pressure, and the limits of justice when the institutions responsible for finding the truth are themselves part of the public question.Written in a restrained, investigative style, this book is for readers interested in historical true crime, unsolved murders, Minnesota crime history, murdered journalists, and cases in which power survives the courtroom. It offers no false certainty and no easy villain. It follows the record to the point where the record stops.Return to the alley behind Second Avenue and consider what the verdict resolved, what history preserved, and what remains unanswered.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A sixteen-year-old disappears. Six weeks later, a damaged record begins.In August 1972, Jeannette DePalma vanished from Springfield, New Jersey. Her remains were found near the Houdaille Quarry, in a place later bound to the name Devil's Teeth. The discovery confirmed her death, but decomposition, incomplete records, and conflicting accounts left the central questions unresolved.At the Edge of Springfield is an evidence-aware historical true crime investigation of the Jeannette DePalma case. Rather than treating the most dramatic theory as fact, it follows the line between what the record supports, what public accounts reported, and what decades of repetition turned into legend.The book reconstructs Jeannette's life before the quarry, the six-week disappearance, the recovery of her remains, and the medical limits that complicated any firm conclusion about cause and manner of death. It examines the strongest case for homicide while preserving the distinction between serious suspicion and proof. No publicly established conviction provides a final answer.It also returns to the claims that made the case widely remembered: alleged crosses, sticks, stones, ritual staging, witchcraft, Satanism, local silence, and a landscape already heavy with rumor. Scene descriptions, photographs, witness memory, religious interpretation, and later retellings are weighed against one another to ask how an uncertain scene became a cultural certainty.Beyond the quarry, the investigation considers missing or damaged files, reported water loss, evidence custody, possible DNA review, prosecutorial questions, and the institutional silence that can deepen distrust without itself proving a cover-up. It also examines how newspapers, later books, podcasts, advocacy, and online discussion kept the case alive while sometimes allowing the mythology to overtake the girl at its center.This is not a book that forces closure where the evidence cannot support it. It is a victim-centered account of an unresolved death, a New Jersey cold case, and the long afterlife of public rumor. Written in a restrained, atmospheric, and investigative style, it is for readers drawn to historical true crime, missing-person cases, forensic limits, damaged case files, media myths, and the ethics of remembering victims.Jeannette DePalma deserves to be remembered as more than a legend attached to a quarry. This book returns to the record, preserves the uncertainty, and asks what can still be responsibly known.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A murdered farmer. An accused wife. A case the law could not finish.In December 1900, Iowa farmer John Hossack was attacked in his own bed while his family slept nearby. His wife, Margaret Hossack, said an intruder had entered the farmhouse. Prosecutors argued that the violence came from within the marriage. What followed became a deeply contested historical true crime case built on household geography, disputed physical evidence, reported marital conflict, and the difficult logic of circumstantial proof.The Ax Under the Granary reconstructs the murder, the first trial, the conviction that brought a life sentence, the Iowa Supreme Court reversal, and the second jury's failure to reach a verdict. The reversal did not establish Margaret's innocence, and the hung jury did not establish her guilt. The state did not try her again, no other person was convicted, and John Hossack's murder remained unresolved.At the center of the book is the farmhouse itself. Doors, light, sleeping arrangements, family movements, and the silence of a dog were all asked to carry evidentiary weight. An ax found beneath the granary became central to the prosecution's theory. Blood and hair were interpreted through the limited forensic methods of the early twentieth century. Each detail created pressure, but none could speak with modern certainty.The book also examines the marriage history introduced at trial, including testimony and reports of fear, conflict, and alleged domestic violence. These accounts mattered to motive, yet motive could not identify the hand that struck John. Margaret's role as wife, mother, defendant, and witness unfolded before an all-male jury at a time when domestic life and gender expectations shaped how credibility was judged.Beyond the courtroom, the Hossack case entered American literary history through journalist Susan Glaspell, whose later work transformed elements of the case into an exploration of women's knowledge, domestic silence, and the limits of official perception. This account keeps that cultural afterlife in view without allowing fiction to replace the surviving record.Written as restrained, evidence-aware true crime, The Ax Under the Granary separates confirmed legal events from allegation, testimony, inference, newspaper framing, and later interpretation. It treats John Hossack first as the victim of a homicide and Margaret Hossack as an accused woman whose conviction was reversed and whose case ended without a final conviction.For readers drawn to unsolved murder cases, historical courtroom investigations, early forensic science, rural American crime history, and the uncertain boundary between public memory and legal proof, this is a careful return to a case that still resists a simple verdict.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A fourteen-year-old girl, a body beneath a Baltimore bridge, and a case the city never fully resolved.In November 1954, Carolyn Loretta Wasilewski was killed in Baltimore. Her body was discovered on railroad tracks beneath or near the Belvedere Avenue bridge, while reported bloodstains and personal belongings pointed investigators toward another possible scene. The murder produced memorable clues, competing theories, and an intensive investigation-but no publicly established offender.Under Belvedere Avenue is an evidence-aware historical true crime account of the Carolyn Wasilewski cold case. It reconstructs the surviving public record without treating rumor as proof or uncertainty as permission to invent. The book follows Carolyn's final known movements, the separation between the apparent crime scene and the place where her body was found, witness reports, physical evidence, and the unresolved questions surrounding the word 'Paul,' reportedly written on her thigh.The investigation also considers a possible retaliation theory connected to testimony Carolyn had given one week earlier, along with known-person, stranger, and opportunist theories. Each possibility is weighed against what the available record supports, what it only suggests, and what it cannot responsibly prove. Suspicion is not presented as guilt, and no theory is allowed to become a verdict.Beyond the homicide investigation, the book examines mid-century Baltimore, Morrell Park, drape youth culture, and the adult assumptions that shaped how a murdered girl was described. It challenges the tendency to turn clothing, friends, reputation, or teenage rebellion into explanations for violence, keeping responsibility where it belongs while showing how social judgment can distort public understanding of a victim.The case's long afterlife is part of the story. Newspaper framing, local legend, repeated clues, and later cultural retellings preserved Carolyn's name while sometimes reducing her to the tracks, the written name, or the 'drape girl' label. By separating documented fact from allegation, inference, and mythology, the book asks how an unsolved murder becomes part of a city's memory-and what is lost when the legend becomes easier to repeat than the life at its center.Written in a restrained, victim-centered investigative style, Under Belvedere Avenue is for readers of historical true crime, unresolved homicide cases, evidence-based cold case analysis, Baltimore history, and the ethics of public memory. It does not promise a solution the record cannot provide. It offers a careful account of what remains known, what remains disputed, and why Carolyn deserves to be remembered as more than the last clue. …

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A suspicious death. A murder conviction. A record that refused to stay settled.In 1931, roomer Stephen Mak fell from an upper window of Rose Veres's boardinghouse in Delray, Detroit. Was it an accident near a ladder, a deliberate act, or a death made impossible to read clearly after rumor, fear, and public pressure took hold The Roomer at the Window revisits the historical true crime case that helped create the legend of the 'Witch of Delray'-and asks what remains when the legend is separated from the evidence.Mak's death quickly became larger than one fatal fall. Investigators and newspapers connected it to life-insurance allegations, earlier deaths associated with the house, reported warnings before the incident, witness accounts from across the street, and an alleged confession whose source and circumstances remained difficult to test. Each detail added force to the prosecution. None could be understood responsibly without examining its limits.Rose Veres, a Hungarian immigrant landlady, and her son William were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Years later, the legal foundation of that judgment failed after a serious procedural defect came to light. Rose received a new trial and was acquitted in 1945. The result did not explain exactly how Stephen Mak died. It left behind a more difficult story: a suspicious death, a prosecution shaped by atmosphere, and a conviction that could no longer carry the certainty once placed upon it.This evidence-aware true crime investigation follows the window, ladder, insurance papers, witness claims, police pressure, courtroom procedure, newspaper framing, and public mythology that shaped the case. It examines the strongest arguments against Rose and William Veres alongside the defense obscured by sensational reporting. It also considers how Depression-era Detroit, immigrant suspicion, boardinghouse economics, and the language of witchcraft helped turn a disputed criminal case into durable folklore.At the center is Stephen Mak, the man most often reduced to the event that made another person infamous. The book restores attention to the victim without treating accusation as proof. It asks how a historical murder case should be read when the surviving record is incomplete, the testimony is contested, and later legal correction does not reconstruct the final moments at the window.Written in a restrained, atmospheric, and victim-centered style, The Roomer at the Window is for readers of historical true crime, disputed murder cases, wrongful-conviction history, criminal justice failures, and Detroit crime history. It does not force certainty where the record cannot support it. It follows the evidence, the damage caused by public myth, and the questions that remained after the verdict failed.Return to Medina Street, beyond the witch legend, and examine the death that started it all.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An unsolved Michigan murder. A white car in the snow. A case that never settled into certainty.On January 14, 1963, Daisy Zick was killed inside her home in Battle Creek, Michigan. What followed was not a cleanly solved case, but a trail of reported witnesses, physical clues, competing theories, public memory, and unanswered questions that continued to press on the city for decades.The Michigan Avenue Cold Case examines Daisy Zick's murder as analytical true crime: not as a rush toward a preferred suspect, but as a careful reading of what can be said, what has been reported, and what the public record still cannot prove. The case contained many of the elements that often make a homicide feel solvable from a distance: a home scene, a missing and later abandoned car, witness observations, rumors about relationships, and investigative attention that extended beyond the first alarm. Yet those pieces did not produce a public conviction.This book follows the case through the ordinary morning that was interrupted, the significance of Daisy's work routine, the reported movement of the white Pontiac, the witness limitations created by winter conditions, and the evidence that appeared to point in more than one direction. It also looks closely at the role of community rumor, the danger of turning a victim's private life into a substitute for proof, and the way an unsolved murder can remain alive in local memory long after the first investigation.Rather than using Daisy Zick's life as a backdrop for speculation, the book keeps the focus on evidence, uncertainty, and proportion. Marriage, reported relationships, workplace connections, and neighborhood knowledge all mattered to investigators because they shaped questions of access, motive, timing, and opportunity. But relevance is not guilt, and suspicion is not proof. That distinction sits at the center of this account.For readers of restrained, evidence-aware true crime, The Michigan Avenue Cold Case offers a sober look at a murder that has been remembered through fragments: the house, the car, the snow, the witnesses, the rumors, and the absence of a final legal answer. It is a victim-centered examination of why some cold cases remain so difficult-not because nothing was known, but because what was known never publicly became enough.Read it for a careful reconstruction of a Battle Creek case where the question is not only who killed Daisy Zick, but why so many clues still left so little certainty. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In January 1950, a West Point cadet signed out for the evening and never came back.Richard Colvin Cox was twenty-one years old, a second-year cadet at the United States Military Academy, and a young man whose life had already moved through Mansfield, Ohio, the U.S. Army, and postwar Germany before he entered one of America's most disciplined institutions. On January 14, 1950, he left the academy to meet a visitor whose identity has remained one of the case's most persistent uncertainties. The visitor has long been remembered as 'George.' The answer to who he was, and what happened after Cox left West Point, never became clear.Vanished at West Point examines the disappearance of Richard Cox as an unresolved historical cold case, not as a mystery forced into a convenient ending. The book follows the known timeline: the phone calls, the visitor's reported appearances, the final day at the academy, the sign-out, the searches, the institutional response, and the theories that formed around the gaps. It looks carefully at the case for violence, the possibility of voluntary disappearance, the intelligence theories tied to Cox's time in Germany, and the later claims that kept the case alive in public memory.At the center of the story is a difficult evidentiary problem: no recovered body, no confirmed final destination, no criminal trial, and no public conclusion strong enough to settle what happened. Rather than treating that absence as permission to speculate freely, this account separates documented fact from reported memory, plausible interpretation from proof, and institutional record from public legend.The book also asks why the Cox case still carries such force. West Point was built on order, discipline, and accountability. A cadet's movement could be recorded, judged, and disciplined. Yet Cox disappeared from within that structure, leaving behind a record that could preserve his departure but not explain the silence that followed.Written with restraint and attention to the human cost of uncertainty, Vanished at West Point is for readers drawn to historical true crime, missing-person cases, military mysteries, unresolved disappearances, and evidence-aware cold case narratives. It does not promise a solved case. It offers something more careful: a clear, sober reading of what can be known, what remains disputed, and why Richard Cox deserves to be remembered as more than West Point's missing cadet.…