The annals of unsolved crime / by Edward Jay Epstein

Includes bibliographical references and index

Loners: but were they alone -- Lincoln's assassin : was he alone? -- The Reichstag fire -- The Lindbergh kidnapping -- JFK's assassin : was he alone? -- The assassination of olaf Palme -- The anthrax attack on America -- The Pope's assassin -- Suicide, accident or disguised murder? -- The mayerling incident -- The hanging of God's banker -- Death of Dag Hammarskjold -- The strange death of Marilyn Monroe -- The crash of Enrico Mattei -- The disappearance of Lin Biao -- The elimination of general Zia -- The submerged spy -- Cold case file -- Jack the Ripper -- The Harry Oakes murder -- The Black Dahlia -- The pursuit of Dr. Sam Sheppard -- The killing of Jon Benet Ramsey -- The zodiac -- The vanishing of Jimmy Hoffa -- Crimes of state -- A decapitation in the Ukraine -- The Dubai hit squad -- The Hariri assassination -- Who assassinated anna Politkovskaya -- Blowing up of Bhutto -- The case of the radioactive corpse -- The godfather contract -- The Japanese vanishings -- Solved or unsolved? -- The Oklahoma city bombing -- The O.J. Simpson nullification -- Bringing down DSK -- The Macdonald massacre -- The Knox ordeal -- The enduring mystery of the assassination.

The product of more than 40 years of investigative work: an insightful guide to some of the most controversial and mysterious crimes of the last 200 years, Edward Jay Epstein's book on the Kennedy assassination" Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth" was one of the first books on the case and an instant bestseller. After interviewing every member of the Warren Commission, Epstein concluded that enough remained uninvestigated that conspiracy theories would persist for years. Ever since, Epstein has remained a skeptic -- and a dogged investigator.