| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
The lost boy -- We have the child -- An obscure country merchant -- Call in all the spies -- Searching for LittleSskeegie -- The greatest manhunt ever seen in Florida -- Interrogating the carpenter -- The paperboy -- Sheriff of Dade County -- Politics and peccadillos -- A roll of money as big as my head -- Found -- Skeegie's funeral -- The most cold-blooded thing I ever heard of -- Time runs out |
| Summary |
Informed by thousands of pages of newly released FBI files, The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash tells the gripping story of the only crime investigated by J. Edgar Hoover himself, the sensational 1938 murder of a five-year-old boy from the Florida Everglades. In his long and storied career, J. Edgar Hoover investigated only one case personally, the 1938 kidnapping and murder of five-year-old Floridian James "Skeegie" Cash. What prompted the director himself to fly from Washington, DC, to a rain-drenched hamlet on the edge of the Everglades? Congress had slashed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cash, James Bailey, Jr.
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McCall, Franklin Pierce
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| SUBJECT |
McCall, Franklin Pierce fast |
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Cash, James Bailey, Jr. fast |
| Subject |
Murder -- Florida -- History
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Kidnapping -- Florida -- History
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Murder -- Investigation -- Florida
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Kidnapping
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Murder
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Murder -- Investigation
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Florida
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Waters, Zack C., 1946-
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| ISBN |
9780817387457 |
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0817387455 |
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