LARKSPUR
The Cousin Who Caught a KillerBy Mohamed Aslam
Length1h 34m
About this audiobook
In 1994, a house fire in a small Wisconsin town killed a young mother while her four-year-old son slept safely two blocks away. The DNA evidence at the scene matched no one — for twenty-five years. Then, in 2019, a distant cousin who had never met either woman uploaded her own DNA to an ancestry website out of simple curiosity, and unknowingly handed investigators the thread that finally unraveled a killer's identity.
Larkspur: The Cousin Who Caught a Killer traces a twenty-eight-year investigation from its earliest failures through the rise of genetic genealogy — the same technique behind some of the most famous cold-case breakthroughs in recent memory — to a courtroom reckoning decades in the making. A story about a mother who never stopped waiting for a name, and the quiet, unglamorous work that finally gave her one.
Audiobook details
GenreTrue Crime
Length1 hr 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 13, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Prologue: A Fire That Wasn't an Accident
3Chapter One: The House on Birchwood Lane
4Chapter Two: What the Fire Marshal Found
5Chapter Three: Twenty-Five Years in a Freezer
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6Chapter Nineteen: The Ex Who Wasn't It
7Chapter Four: A Different Kind of Database
8Chapter Five: Building the Tree
9Chapter Six: The Cousin Who Never Knew
10Chapter Twenty-Five: The Genealogist
11Chapter Twenty: Eleven Names, One Match
12Chapter Seven: Looking at Curtis Halloran Again
13Chapter Fourteen: Melissa Grady's Second Statement
14Chapter Eight: The Coffee Cup
15Chapter Nine: The Arrest
16Chapter Twenty-Two: Who Curtis Halloran Was
17Chapter Twenty-One: The Prosecutor's Dilemma
18Chapter Ten: The Trial
19Chapter Fifteen: How Fire Investigation Changed
20Chapter Eleven: What Halloran Said, and Didn't
21Chapter Twenty-Four: The Sentencing Hearing, in Full
22Chapter Twelve: Diane, Remembered
23Chapter Eighteen: What Waiting Actually Looks Like
24Chapter Sixteen: A Case Other Departments Studied
25Chapter Twenty-Three: Covering the Case
26Chapter Seventeen: One Case Among Many
27Chapter Thirteen: A Technique Still Being Argued Over
28Chapter Twenty-Six: Tyler's Testimony to the Legislature
29Chapter Twenty-Seven: What This Case Asks of Us
30Author's Note
31Epilogue: The House on Birchwood Lane, Today
THE KING OF BROKEN VOWSMohamed Aslam2h 5m Only with Ultra
THE GIRL IN THE WINTER GARDENMohamed Aslam1h 35m Only with Ultra
THE LAST CALL FROM ASHCROFTMohamed Aslam4h 41m Only with Ultra
THE WOMAN IN ROOM 317Mohamed Aslam4h 30m Only with Ultra
THE HOUSE BEYOND THE TIDEMohamed Aslam1h 46m Only with Ultra
THE LAST LIGHT AT BRIAR COVEMohamed Aslam1h 28m Only with Ultra
THE LIGHTHOUSE BETWEEN USMohamed Aslam1h 39m Only with Ultra
THE WIDOW'S LAST LETTERMohamed Aslam1h 10m Only with Ultra
Provenance Mohamed Aslam54m Only with Ultra
THE LAST TENANTMohamed Aslam1h Only with Ultra
Fatal ExitMohamed Aslam52m Only with Ultra
The Girl Who Never Left Cedar LakeMohamed Aslam50m Only with Ultra
THE HOLLOW HOURMohamed Aslam 1h 3m Only with Ultra
Drowned HarborMohamed Aslam49m Only with Ultra
BRAEBURNMohamed Aslam 54m Only with Ultra
THE LAST VOICE ON BLACKWOOD...Mohamed Aslam 1h 27m Only with Ultra
MARSHFIELDMohamed Aslam57m Only with Ultra
BROOKHAVENMohamed Aslam 51m Only with Ultra
MILLHAVENMohamed Aslam52m Only with Ultra
HAVENWOODMohamed Aslam54m Only with Ultra
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