Cricket in the Web by Paula Moore

Cricket in the Web by Paula Moore

Ovida "Cricket" Coogler was last seen alive entering a mysterious car driven by an unknown man in downtown Las Cruces, New Mexico, around 3:00 on the morning of March 31, 1949. Seventeen days later, her body was found in a hastily dug grave near Mesquite, New Mexico. The discovery of the eighteen-year-old waitress's body launched a series of court inquiries and trials that would reshape the direction of New Mexico politics, expose political corruption, and spawn generations of rumors that have polarized opinions of what happened to Coogler that windy March morning.

Containing elements of mystery, conflict, power, fear, sex, and politics, the Coogler case has outlasted the brief amount of attention that most local unsolved murders receive. In this exhaustively researched study of the murder and its aftermath, Paula Moore provides the first objective account to examine the infamous murder and the events that unfolded in its wake.

Cricket in the Web provides a fascinating glimpse into life in a small, politically corrupt New Mexico town in the late 1940sIt also shows that however tragic the murder of young Ovida 'Cricket' Coogler was, her death had a remarkable impact on the life of many people, and who murdered her and why is one of the most enduring mysteries in New Mexico history - Justice Denied, The Magazine for the Wrongly Convicted ""In the early morning of March 31, 1949, Cricket [Coogler] had the worst date of her life. She got into somebody's car alive and left it dead. She was just 18.... Because the mystery remains unresolved, we don't find out who committed the crime. But [Paula] Moore does provide a well-documented timeline of events on Cricket's last night, and she tells what happened to all the players in the story."" - Pasatiempo (Santa Fe, NM)

Paula Moore is the former executive assistant to the president of New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. She is coauthor of One Man's Word: A Seven-Decade Personal History.

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Title	Cricket in the Web
Author	Paula Moore
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of New Mexico Press
Year published	2009-02-28
Number of pages	215
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