{"product_id":"the-scientist-and-the-serial-killer-the-search-for-houstons-lost-boys-hardcover","title":"The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston's Lost Boys - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLise Olsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe true story of how one dedicated forensic scientist restored the long-lost identities of the teenaged victims of the \"Candy Man,\" one of America's most prolific serial killers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A masterwork of crime writing . . . Lise Olsen has taken a fifty-year-old story and made it new and fresh and terrifyingly real.\"--S. C. Gwynne, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eRebel Yell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHouston, Texas, in the early 1970s was an exciting place--the home of NASA, the city of the future. But a string of more than two dozen missing teenage boys hinted at a dark undercurrent that would go ignored for too long. While their siblings and friends wondered where they had gone, the Houston police department dismissed them as runaways, fleeing the Vietnam draft or conservative parents, likely looking to get high and join the counterculture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was only after their killer, Dean Corll, was murdered by an accomplice that many of those boys' bodies were discovered in mass graves. Corll, known as the \"Candy Man,\" was a local sweet-shop owner who had enlisted two teens to lure their friends to parties, where they would be tortured and killed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll of Corll's victims' bodies were badly decomposed; some were only skeletal. Known collectively as the Lost Boys, many were never identified and some remained undiscovered. Decades later, when forensic anthropologist Sharon Derrick discovered a box of remains marked \"1973 Murders\" in the Harris County Medical Examiner's office, she recalled the horrifying crime from her own childhood, and knew she had to act. It would take prison interviews with Corll's accomplices, advanced scientific techniques, and years of tireless effort to identify these young men. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInvestigative journalist Lise Olsen brings to life the teens who were hunted by a killer hiding in plain sight and the extraordinary woman who would finally give his unknown victims back their names and their dignity. With newly uncovered information about the case, \u003ci\u003eThe Scientist and the Serial Killer \u003c\/i\u003eimmerses readers in an astonishing story and reveals why these horrific events remain relevant decades later.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLise Olsen\u003c\/b\u003e is an investigative reporter and editor and the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eCode of Silence \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Scientist and the Serial Killer\u003c\/i\u003e. Her reports have contributed to the prosecutions of a former congressman and a federal judge, inspired laws and reforms, helped solve cold cases and identify murder victims, and freed wrongfully held prisoners. Her writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eTexas Observer, \u003c\/i\u003eNBC News, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle, Texas Monthly \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. She is featured in Netflix's \u003ci\u003eThe Texas Killing Fields, \u003c\/i\u003e Paramount+'s \u003ci\u003eThe Pillowcase Murders, \u003c\/i\u003e CNN's \u003ci\u003eThe Wrong Man, \u003c\/i\u003e and the A\u0026amp;E series \u003ci\u003eThe Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives near Houston, Texas, where she and her husband raised two boys of their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 9.5 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51979082694957,"sku":"9780593595688","price":30.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/snfs756C9r9780593595688.webp?v=1775818873","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-scientist-and-the-serial-killer-the-search-for-houstons-lost-boys-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}