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
17Chapter Twenty-One: The Prosecutor's Dilemma
2Prologue: A Fire That Wasn't an Accident
18Chapter Ten: The Trial
3Chapter One: The House on Birchwood Lane
19Chapter Fifteen: How Fire Investigation Changed
4Chapter Two: What the Fire Marshal Found
20Chapter Eleven: What Halloran Said, and Didn't
5Chapter Three: Twenty-Five Years in a Freezer
21Chapter Twenty-Four: The Sentencing Hearing, in Full
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6Chapter Nineteen: The Ex Who Wasn't It
22Chapter Twelve: Diane, Remembered
7Chapter Four: A Different Kind of Database
23Chapter Eighteen: What Waiting Actually Looks Like
8Chapter Five: Building the Tree
24Chapter Sixteen: A Case Other Departments Studied
9Chapter Six: The Cousin Who Never Knew
25Chapter Twenty-Three: Covering the Case
10Chapter Twenty-Five: The Genealogist
26Chapter Seventeen: One Case Among Many
11Chapter Twenty: Eleven Names, One Match
27Chapter Thirteen: A Technique Still Being Argued Over
12Chapter Seven: Looking at Curtis Halloran Again
28Chapter Twenty-Six: Tyler's Testimony to the Legislature
13Chapter Fourteen: Melissa Grady's Second Statement
29Chapter Twenty-Seven: What This Case Asks of Us
14Chapter Eight: The Coffee Cup
30Author's Note
15Chapter Nine: The Arrest
31Epilogue: The House on Birchwood Lane, Today
16Chapter Twenty-Two: Who Curtis Halloran Was
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