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(More customer reviews)The detectives were like characters from a 1950s cop show: James Jack, an idealistic young family man; and Frank Czech, the cigar chewing veteran cynic.
This is the case that made them both cry.
They caught the case on October 16, 1955, when it was simply the puzzle of three young boys who went to a movie on Sunday afternoon and didn't return home that evening. Those pre-Amber alert days were innocent--at first many assumed that Robert Peterson and brothers John and Anton Schuessler were young runaways. Detectives Jack and Czech believed the boys' parents, who said they would never run away.
On October 18, the boys were found in a remote ditch, nude and strangled. Despite one of the most massive police investigations in Chicago history, the case went cold for forty years, until cold case detectives were able to assemble puzzling evidence, whispered confessions and long remembered screams into a case.
All of this is described in the books "Unbridled Rage" by Gene O'Shea and "Shattered Sense of Innocence" by Lindberg and Sykes. This book's strength lies in James Jack's account of the initial police investigation. His investigation included working undercover in a bowling alley and arresting a flasher in a movie theater.
From start to finish, this is an outstanding book: suspenseful and heartbreaking. True crime fans will love it--"Law and Order" meets "Dragnet."
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