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Someone's Daughter

In Search of Justice for Jane Doe

By: Silvia Pettem

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Someone's Daughter

In Search of Justice for Jane Doe

By: Silvia Pettem

In 1954, two college students were hiking along a creek outside of Boulder, Colorado, when they stumbled upon the body of a murdered young woman. Who was this woman? What had happened to her? The initial investigation turned up nothing, and the girl was buried in a local cemetery with a gravestone that read, "Jane Doe, April 1954, Age About 20 Years." Decades later, historian Silvia Pettem formed a partnership with law enforcement and forensic experts and set in motion the events that led to Jane Doe's exhumation and eventual identification, as well as the identity of her probable killer. The 2023 paperback edition includes an epilogue with updated information on how the mystery finally was solved.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493077716

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9781493077717

The Long Term Missing

Hope and Help for Families

By: Silvia Pettem

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The Long Term Missing

Hope and Help for Families

By: Silvia Pettem

When loved-ones go missing, the lives of their family members are turned upside-down. As the days and months turn into years, some families are caged in by their grief, while others become proactive –– renewing police contacts, keeping up with the latest technologies, and educating themselves as they strive to become their long-term missing persons’ advocates. By inspiring hope, as well as providing answers and practical advice, The Long Term Missing: Hope and Help for Families assists families in navigating the uncharted territory they never chose to enter. Author Silvia Pettem also provides families with information to better understand how law-enforcement and related agencies work to solve missing persons cases. Along the way, she takes her readers behind the scenes, while emphasizing that every unidentified person is a missing person to someone else. With real cases, both solved and unsolved, the book also illustrates the resources available and the actions that family members, civilians, and law enforcement agencies can take to search for long-term missing persons, to identify previously unknown remains, and to bring the missing persons home. The Long Term Missing: Hope and Help for Families inspires hope and gives answers as it empowers family members of long term missing persons to be proactive and to become their missing persons’ advocates.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442256818

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Separate Lives

Uncovering the Hidden Family of Victorian Professor Mary Rippon

By: Silvia Pettem

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Separate Lives

Uncovering the Hidden Family of Victorian Professor Mary Rippon

By: Silvia Pettem

A pioneer woman educator in the male-dominated world of nineteenth-century academia, Mary Rippon was the first female professor at the University of Colorado and is believed to have been the first woman in the United States to teach at a state university. Mary received wide acclaim for her teaching, but Victorian society forced her to lead two very separate lives. "Miss Rippon," as she was always known, was both a professional woman and a mother in an era when these two roles could not be combined. To keep her job and provide for her family, she hid her husband and child behind a Victorian veil of secrecy that spanned two continents. Separate Lives reveals the full story of the conflicts between this extraordinary woman’s public and private lives. In January 1878, after several years of education in Germany, France, and Switzerland, the soft-spoken twenty-seven-year-old was welcomed at the newly opened University of Colorado in the then-small frontier town of Boulder. The growth of her lengthy career paralleled the early growth of the university, where she worked her way up from first female faculty member to the university's first female professor, eventually chairing the Department of German Language and Literature. The truth of Mary’s separate lives was not disclosed until nearly a century later, in 1976, when her elderly grandson revealed to a university librarian that he was Mary’s descendant. In 2006, Mary received a posthumous honorary degree from the University of Colorado, and in 2020 a scholarship was endowed in her name. Silvia Pettem’s carefully researched biography weaves together the story of Mary’s private life with her professional career—not to tarnish Mary's well-deserved reputation, but rather to uncover the human side of a woman whose circumstances clashed with the mores of her times.

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1493079360

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The Cold Case Chronicles

Murders, Mysteries, and Missing Persons from History

By: Silvia Pettem

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The Cold Case Chronicles

Murders, Mysteries, and Missing Persons from History

By: Silvia Pettem

COLD CASE CHRONICLES tells the stories of victims -- some missing, some murdered and some with changed identities. All are true, and each are mysterious in their own ways. The cases in this nonfiction narrative date from 1910 through the 1950s and include evolutions in forensics, as well as historical context in order to view the men, women and children through the lens of time.

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Lyons Press

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1493044559

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Cold Case Research Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide Cases

By: Silvia Pettem

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Cold Case Research Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide Cases

By: Silvia Pettem

Cases in which all investigative leads appear to be exhausted are frustrating for both investigators and victims families. Cold cases can range from those only a few months old to others that go back for decades. Presenting profiles and actual case histories, Cold Case Research: Resources for Unidentified, Missing and Cold Homicide Cases illustrat

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CRC Press

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1439861706

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9781439861707

Cold Case Chronicles

Mysteries, Murders & The Missing

By: Silvia Pettem

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Cold Case Chronicles

Mysteries, Murders & The Missing

By: Silvia Pettem

COLD CASE CHRONICLES tells the stories of victims –– some missing, some murdered and some with changed identities. All are true, and each are mysterious in their own ways. The cases in this nonfiction narrative date from 1910 through the 1950s and include evolutions in forensics, as well as historical context in order to view the men, women and children through the lens of time. Included are recent theories on the cases of Judge Joseph Crater (missing from New York City in 1930) and film director William Desmond Taylor (shot in Hollywood in 1922). Other chapters help to unravel the mystique of individuals with changed identities. Included, too, is a case of aerial sabotage, the "Boy in the Box," and unusual disappearances of young women, along with child abductions and four missing adventurers –– Everett Ruess, Joseph Halpern, and Glen and Bessie Hyde. Readers are encouraged to draw their own conclusions, consider how detectives would handle these and other cases today, and learn how genetic genealogy brings new hope for the future.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493044567

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Only in Boulder

The County's Colorful Characters

By: Silvia Pettem

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Only in Boulder

The County's Colorful Characters

By: Silvia Pettem

Boulder County has captivated settlers and travelers since gold prospectors founded the town in 1859. Only in Boulder is a look at the fascinating people who make up the area's rich and historic past. Here, you'll vicariously mine for gold with Indian Jack, fight for temperance with Lena Dwight and dance to the tunes of Glenn Miller. You'll also learn of Horace and Baby Doe Tabor's elusive connection to Boulder County and visit the final resting place of outlaw Tom Horn. Acclaimed historian Silvia Pettem has been writing about Boulder and its people for decades. This selected collection of her columns brings to life some of Boulder's most memorable and unique visitors, residents, activists, artists and entrepreneurs. Each compelling character is a thread in the fabric of the Boulder we know and love today.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614230609

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Someone's Daughter

In Search of Justice for Jane Doe

By: Silvia Pettem

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In Search of Justice for Jane Doe

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1493077716

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In Search of the Blonde Tigress

The Untold Story of Eleanor Jarman

By: Silvia Pettem

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In Search of the Blonde Tigress

The Untold Story of Eleanor Jarman

By: Silvia Pettem

Beginning in 1933, Eleanor Jarman was sensationalized by the press as the "blonde tigress" and "the most dangerous woman alive." But a closer look at her life shows that she was an otherwise ordinary woman who got caught up in a Chicago crime spree, then was convicted as an accomplice to murder and sent to prison. In 1940, Eleanor escaped and managed to live out her life as, perhaps, America's longest-running female fugitive. Following the murder of an elderly shopkeeper, readers are given a front-row seat for Eleanor's arrest, trial, conviction, and sentencing—all documented with recently unearthed primary-source police records, court transcripts, and prison files—and her subsequent prison years. Woven in are comparisons and contrasts between Eleanor's and her escape partner's criminal histories, as well as speculation on their lives on the lam. Whether Eleanor deserved her sentence, or whether it was too harsh, is left for the reader to decide. In Search of the Blonde Tigress sets the mystery and intrigue of this wanted woman into historic context. It also includes her family's plea, in 1993, for Eleanor to come forward and apply for clemency. Most revealing at the time was Eleanor's alias. With that information (and considering that Eleanor, born in 1901, is certainly now deceased), Silvia Pettem documents her search for Eleanor's remains—right up to a visit to her likely grave.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493068644

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Cold Case Research Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide Cases

By: Silvia Pettem

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Cold Case Research Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide Cases

By: Silvia Pettem

Cases in which all investigative leads appear to be exhausted are frustrating for both investigators and victims’ families. Cold cases can range from those only a few months old to others that go back for decades. Presenting profiles and actual case histories, Cold Case Research: Resources for Unidentified, Missing and Cold Homicide Cases illustrates how investigators can successfully apply resources that will enable them to reopen and solve cases gathering dust in the file room. Today’s investigators have found that, to solve cold cases, they need to be internet savvy and make the best use of the rapidly changing methodologies of the twenty-first century, but they also have to be time travelers and open the door to the past. This volume weaves together the nearly forgotten skill sets of traditional historical researchers with the latest online tools, including TLO, a premier investigative system; and NamUs, the revolutionary database for missing persons and unidentified remains. Along with practical applications, Cold Case Research gives investigators the tools they need to save time and money and to jump-start their cold cases, while keeping others from going cold in the future. Topics discussed include: Implementing cold case units People searches and working with databases Overlooked DNA in PKU cards The plight of the missing and unknown Applying historical and geographical context Online and off-line newspaper research Public and published records The use of volunteers Contact with co-victims Cold-case review teams and information-sharing resources Taking advantage of the media Using a thinking-outside-the-box approach, this volume helps fill major gaps in traditional cold case investigation training and techniques, enabling investigators to confidently reopen and crack the mystery of cases long thought unsolvable. Silvia Pettem was quoted in a January 29, 2012 article on missing persons in the Colorado Springs Gazette.

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1439861692

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Separate Lives

Uncovering the Hidden Family of Victorian Professor Mary Rippon

By: Silvia Pettem

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Separate Lives

Uncovering the Hidden Family of Victorian Professor Mary Rippon

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1493079360

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Cold Case Chronicles

Mysteries, Murders & The Missing

By: Silvia Pettem

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Mysteries, Murders & The Missing

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1493044567

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Boulder

A Sense of Time and Place Revisited

By: Silvia Pettem

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Boulder

A Sense of Time and Place Revisited

By: Silvia Pettem

Journey with Silvia Pettem through Boulder's history in Boulder: A Sense of Time & Place Revisited. Watch the evolution from a frontier mining town to the "Athens of the West." Learn of murder and bootleggers in the 1920s, survive the Great Depression and follow Boulder's postwar growing pains as the city matures and residents reflect on its past. Each article is a story in itself but only a small piece of what makes Boulder the city it is today.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614232601

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Serving Time

The Untold Story of Eleanor Jarman

By: Silvia Pettem

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Serving Time

The Untold Story of Eleanor Jarman

By: Silvia Pettem

Beginning in 1933, Eleanor Jarman was sensationalized by the press as the "Blonde Tigress" and "the most dangerous woman alive." Using recently unearthed records, Pettem reveals how Jarman got caught up in a Chicago crime spree, was convicted as an accomplice to murder, and in 1940 escaped prison to become America's longest-running female fugitive"--

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Boulder

A Sense of Time & Place Revisited

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A Sense of Time & Place Revisited

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Someone's Daughter

Someone's Daughter

The Long Term Missing

The Long Term Missing

Separate Lives

Separate Lives

The Cold Case Chronicles

The Cold Case Chronicles

Cold Case Research Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide Cases

Cold Case Research Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide Cases

Cold Case Chronicles

Cold Case Chronicles

Only in Boulder

Only in Boulder

Someone's Daughter

Someone's Daughter

In Search of the Blonde Tigress

In Search of the Blonde Tigress

Cold Case Research Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide Cases

Cold Case Research Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide Cases

Separate Lives

Separate Lives

Cold Case Chronicles

Cold Case Chronicles

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Boulder

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