Getting Away With Murder by William Webb

Getting Away With Murder by William Webb

Despite a decline in the number of murders in the United States since the 1960s, thousands go unsolved each year.

As of 2013, the solve rate was at an all-time low at only 65 percent of the total committed.

The 15 murders profiled in this book were committed between 1958 and 2014. The oldest of the set involves the bizarre murder of Pearl Eaton, one of the famous Ziegfeld Follies Girls of the 1920s. From the beginning, the crime had no leads or suspects and remains among the coldest of the 15 unsolved crimes.

The most recent - the murder of four members of the McStay family found buried in the California desert in November 2013 - is under active investigation.

In Ofcom, the UK telecommunications regulator, William Webb is the Director of Technological Resources. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IEEE, and the IET, where he is also a Vice President, and a Visiting Professor at Surrey University and De Montfort University. He is the Series Editor for the Cambridge Wireless Essentials book series produced by Cambridge University Press, and he has previously published ten books, 80 papers, and four patents. His professional experience includes hardware design, computer simulation, propagation modeling, spectrum management, and strategy creation for a variety of communication consultancies.