"Sixty-six years ago, three brothers from North Minneapolis disappeared on a November afternoon and were never seen again. Based on a single cap found on the ice of the Mississippi River, investigators determined that Kenneth, Jr. (age 8), David (age 6), and Daniel (age 4) had drowned and closed the case immediately. Their parents, Betty and Kenneth Klein, weren't convinced by this hasty conclusion and never stopped looking for their boys, who they believed had been abducted--though their pleas to reopen the case year after year remained unsuccessful. Fifty-three years later, in 2014, an investigator named Jessica Miller and the Wright County Sheriff, with the help of the FBI, convinced the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to reopen the case based on their investigations which turned up information never found or considered by the original investigators. Miller and her fellow deputy Lance Salls concluded this was in fact a likely abduction, and identified a prime suspect (now deceased). It is one of the oldest criminal cold cases in US history to be reopened"-- Provided by publisher
Jack El-Hai Livres
Jack El-Hai est un journaliste largement publié dont le travail explore l'histoire, la médecine et la science. Son écriture se caractérise par une exploration approfondie des sujets, révélant au lecteur des récits fascinants et souvent négligés. Le style d'El-Hai est à la fois précis et engageant, rendant les concepts complexes accessibles et captivants. Ses contributions journalistiques et d'auteur sont appréciées pour leur perspicacité et leur nature stimulante.




The Lobotomist
- 368pages
- 13 heures de lecture
The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Into this crisis stepped Walter Freeman, M.D., who saw a solution in lobotomy, a brain operation intended to reduce the severity of psychotic symptoms. Although many patients did not benefit from the thousands of lobotomies Freeman performed, others believed their lobotomies changed them for the better. Drawing on a rich collection of documents Freeman left behind and interviews with Freeman's family, Jack El-Hai takes a penetrating look into the life of this complex scientific genius and traces the physician's fascinating life and work.
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist. Der Nazi und der Psychiater, englische Ausgabe
- 304pages
- 11 heures de lecture
In 1945, an improbable relationship between the fallen Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goering, and ambitious US Army physician, Douglas Kelley, becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil, amid the devastation of Europe at the end of World War II
Ace reportage on the unique relationship between a prison physician and one of the Third Reich's highest ranking officials.