![]() Thanks to them, Barbara Ann Hackmann Taylor’s family now knows where she is buried.) Matthews is one of the original founders of the Doe Network, the website I was using as the basis for my fictional online community. (Riddle found the body and his eventual son-in-law Matthews took to the early-internet forums to solve the case. I was especially thrilled that Halber detailed the story of Wilbur Riddle, Todd Matthews, and “Tent Girl,” the thirty-year case of an unidentified woman’s body found in Kentucky. The Skeleton Crew was, for me, a case of the perfect book falling into my hands at the right time. Halber’s book follows several sleuths as they chip away at long-cold cases of missing and unidentified people, trying to make matches between those who’ve disappeared and bodies found without ID. My early efforts to try and understand how an actual online sleuth would work and how a true-crime community like this would function-and break down-led me directly to a book called The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases by Deborah Halber. My new novel, The Lucky One, tells the story of a woman who takes up with a community of online amateur sleuths.
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