Emily Craig Chapter Summaries
This book includes several investigations of America’s most shocking crimes, in which Emily Craig takes you behind the scenes of real-life cases. Dr. Emily Craig, is a forensic anthropologist for the state of Kentucky Medical Examiner’s Office. She was the author of this spectacular book. Emily’s job was to examine bones, fragments of extremities, and burned human remains, to help determine how people died, who they were, and sometimes even what they looked like (which is what they often had to do). Emily is one of the best forensic anthropologists in the country, and has helped identify many murder victims and solve hundreds of cold cases. In the book Emily tells her stories about her spontaneous career, which has ranged from murder victims
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Male man, maybe Hispanic, minimum of 30 years old, around six feet tall, has had to have dental work including a gold crown, dead over six months. Little did Craig and her team of investigators know that a mother had reported over 1,250 miles away that her 34 year old son had went missing. More seasons went by, then one day in October of 2000, Detective Jim Griffin state police officer, learned that a man just arrested for a slight crime wanted to talk about one of his old cases, (the creek-bed body). The detective was doubtful, having wasted years of time listening to lies. He just wanted to meet the man, to be sure that he was the last resort. The source said he was awakened one night in July 1998 by two nervous acquaintances saying they needed his help. With fear, he felt there was no way out. He then helped them carry a wrapped body out of a farmhouse and into a van. They took a long ride, and then joined in dumping the body in a creek. The detective knew right then that when the man mentioned the Mickey Mouse blanket that was wrapped around the body, he knew he was telling the truth. The truth quickly came out and there were two men and one female charged with first degree murder. They had planned to kill this man for his cocaine. The three convicts were sentenced to life
Male man, maybe Hispanic, minimum of 30 years old, around six feet tall, has had to have dental work including a gold crown, dead over six months. Little did Craig and her team of investigators know that a mother had reported over 1,250 miles away that her 34 year old son had went missing. More seasons went by, then one day in October of 2000, Detective Jim Griffin state police officer, learned that a man just arrested for a slight crime wanted to talk about one of his old cases, (the creek-bed body). The detective was doubtful, having wasted years of time listening to lies. He just wanted to meet the man, to be sure that he was the last resort. The source said he was awakened one night in July 1998 by two nervous acquaintances saying they needed his help. With fear, he felt there was no way out. He then helped them carry a wrapped body out of a farmhouse and into a van. They took a long ride, and then joined in dumping the body in a creek. The detective knew right then that when the man mentioned the Mickey Mouse blanket that was wrapped around the body, he knew he was telling the truth. The truth quickly came out and there were two men and one female charged with first degree murder. They had planned to kill this man for his cocaine. The three convicts were sentenced to life