Missing The Oregon City girls : a shocking true story of abduction and murder

Linda O'Neal

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Published
Far Hills, N.J. : New Horizon Press c2006.
Language
English
Main Author
Linda O'Neal (-)
Other Authors
Philip F. Tennyson, 1946- (-), Rick Watson
Physical Description
337 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780882822686
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1. Missing Person
  • Chapter 2. Be On the Lookout
  • Chapter 3. Searching for Clues
  • Chapter 4. Runaway or Missing Person?
  • Chapter 5. Another Blow Strikes
  • Chapter 6. Two Girls Lost
  • Chapter 7. Linda O'Neal Investigations
  • Chapter 8. No Stone Unturned
  • Chapter 9. The Search Continues
  • Chapter 10. Final Billboard
  • Chapter 11. Friends and Foes
  • Chapter 12. Strange Insights
  • Chapter 13. Barbecues and Revelations
  • Chapter 14. Meeting the FBI
  • Chapter 15. Flashing Lights and Getaways
  • Chapter 16. Running
  • Chapter 17. Raped
  • Chapter 18. Dark Revelations
  • Chapter 19. Finger-pointing
  • Chapter 20. Charges and Countercharges
  • Chapter 21. Remembering Ashley
  • Chapter 22. Woe-stricken Days
  • Chapter 23. Nefarious Plotting
  • Chapter 24. Falling Dominoes
  • Chapter 25. Remembering Miranda
  • Chapter 26. Psycho?
  • Epilogue
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Endnotes
Review by Booklist Review

When 12-year-old Ashley Pond disappeared on the way to school in January 2002, her family and community were thrust into the nightmare of a child abduction case that had literally nowhere to go and few, if any, clues as to the victim's fate. The following spring, another girl, Ashley's classmate Miranda Gaddis, also disappeared, from the same bus stop that Ashley had used. Seeming to leave no stone unturned, law-enforcement officials from various agencies couldn't make headway in either case, and the horror of hosting a serial abductor engulfed the community. Enter Ashley's step-grandmother, private investigator O'Neal. Her intensive investigation, full of arcane turns and investigative dead ends, eventually gained traction. Following her professional judgment and a rasher of hunches, she homed in on a suspect who had previously eluded police attention. Persevering when less-committed investigators reasonably may have given up, she continued searching and eventually brought a heinous and pitiful, though certainly not pitiable, culprit to justice. A by-the-numbers true-crime yarn made greatly more urgent by the main investigator's familial tie. --Mike Tribby Copyright 2005 Booklist

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