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Documents the efforts of the Vidocq Society, an elite trio of gifted investigators, to solve such notorious cold cases as those of JonBenet Ramsey, the Butcher of Cleveland, and Jack the Ripper, and details their work with the worlds top forensic specialists. The connoisseurs of murder -- The man who got away with murder -- The knights of the Cafe Table -- A little child shall lead them -- Cops and robbers -- The man who saw dead people -- Shades of the dark knight -- Guardians of the city -- Cold eyes from the past -- On the trail of the assassin -- Death of a B-girl -- The visual detective -- The man with the bad stomach -- On the trail of the warlock -- The reluctant knight errant -- The perfect mass murder -- The mask of the invisible man -- The return of Vidocq -- The gathering of detectives -- Busted -- The detective of souls -- The death artist -- Dreams of Morpheus -- A case they cant let go -- The butcher of Cleveland -- Imploring God -- The end of the affair -- Catch me if you can -- The case of the shoeless corpse -- The case of the prodigal son -- The sage of Scotland Yard -- Think therefore on revenge -- Murder in the cathedral -- What I want to hear are handcuffs -- The consulting detectives -- Take me to the psychopath -- The stranger in Biddle House -- City of brotherly mayhem -- Wrath sweeter by far than the honeycomb -- The worst mother in history -- The boy who never died -- The eight babies called it -- Murder in triplicate -- From heaven to hell -- The descent -- In the world which will be renewed -- Congratulations, youve found your killer -- Interrogation -- The haunting of Mary -- The case of the missing face -- The killer angels -- The ghost -- The ninth circle of hell -- Death in the time of bananas -- The miracle on South Street -- Knights of the round tables

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Copyright 2010 by Michael Capuzzo

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Capuzzo, Mike.
The murder room : the heirs of Sherlock Holmes gather to solve the worlds
most perplexing cold cases / Michael Capuzzo.
p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-101-45895-2

1. MurderUnited StatesCase studies. 2. Vidocq Society. I. Title.
HV6529.C37 2010
363.2595230973dc22 2010005044


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For Teresa

PROLOGUE

THE PROFILER AND THE PRIEST

Hudson, Wisconsin, December 2004


The profiler would not shake hands with the priest. It was unacceptable, intolerable if he was to go in for the kill. And the profiler always went in for the kill. That was the thing that excited him most. It never ceased to enthrall him, even in retirement.


The priest had swept in, cassock whirling, smiling and pumping familiar hands, trailing an assistant to puff himself up with more power, the profiler noted. The Father was a large man, commanding in his black garb; bearded, youthful face cracked in a welcoming Midwestern smile. Next to him the profiler seemed shrunken, emaciated, pale as a ghost. He coughed up a lung with each cigarette, at least three times an hour. He also was an atheist, sneering and quite cynical about the whole question. But that was not the point.


The point was moral standards must be upheld as a matter of honor, a point of manhood. The more immediate point was control, and the thin man would not let the psychopath acquire it, not for a moment. Each moment in life, he believed, was a choice: a step toward good or evil, dominance or submission, authenticity or falsehood. He did not tolerate the lesser choices. He did not tolerate those who crossed the line invading common decency. This made him a lot of enemies. He was proud to have enemies. One should never apologize for being right, he said.


Now the big, fleshy hand near to God was outstretched toward the thin man in fellowship. The others, the police chief and two detectives, were watching.


The profiler wrinkled his aquiline nose in disgust, as if I was being offered a piece of dog shit. Swiftly he withdrew his hand and turned away. He was pleased to see a stricken look fleetingly cross the priests face. Then, composure returned like a sheen coating the hollow man.


It was always all about control. The profiler had instructed the chief how to introduce him. No name, no city or rank, only this is a man from out of town who is an expert on murder. Once the detective introduced the profiler as instructed, the thin man shook hands with the priest with Victorian courtesy, like the old-school gentleman he was. Then he sat in the corner, legs folded, lip turned in a sneer, quietly watching as the police asked the priest about the murders.


The police were no closer to an arrest than they had been that afternoon in broad daylight when the town was shocked from a century of innocence in such matters, unimagined and unimaginable, with the execution-style murder of two prominent citizens. The police had once had eleven suspects and now, two years later, had moved no further. The profiler studied the case file and chatted with the police for three hours before narrowing the eleven suspects to one. Its the priest, he told the police. Of course, I know you dont want it to be the priest. Nonetheless, its the priest. The thin man had appeared on the front page of the small-town newspaper declaring he was quite confident the mysterious murders would soon be solved. If I were the killer, he quipped, I wouldnt buy any green bananas.


The police hadnt known what to expect when they presented the cold case in the nineteenth-century mens club in Philadelphia to the worlds greatest detectives. The French flags, the walnut paneling, the chandeliers made them nervous. There was an immense, portly, bearded man with a huge head, a man of a thousand jokes they called the Grand Inquisitor; a slim, short, muscular artist, bald with a white goatee and dressed all in black, who saw dead people; and the gaunt profiler with the face of Poe. There were a hundred others, famous sleuths, the FBI agent whose movie double nails Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, investigators of the RFK and Martin Luther King assassinations, too many to remember.


They said theyd consider taking the case, possibly organize a team.


Then one man, the thin man, got off the plane alone.


And now he watched as the priest sat before him and fielded questions from the police with dignity and poise. The priest sat erect with his elbows on the table, his hands tented as if in prayer. The detectives asked him about the young boys. The priest sat back with umbrage; the mere suggestion was an insult. The detectives pushed harder, with names and dates, until the priest had to admit to sex with the young teenagers. But the priest told the police they badly misunderstood. He was not assaulting the boys. He was teaching them sex education.


There was quiet. A detective looked to the corner and asked if the profiler had any questions.


The thin man leaned forward and removed his glasses to stare at the priest. To begin with, if I were in charge of this investigation, you would not be wearing that costume. He spat out the word costume as if it were something foul.


Im a priest twenty-four hours a day! the priest objected.

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