The Annals of Unsolved Crime (38 page)

Chapter 5: The Anthrax Attack on America

David Willman,
The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins, the Anthrax Attacks, and America’s Rush to War
(2011), Bantam Books, New York

Chapter 6: The Pope’s Assassin

Paul B. Henze,
The Plot to Kill the Pope
(1983), Scribner, New York

Chapter 7: The Mayerling Incident

Frederic Morton,
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888–1889
(1979), Little Brown Company, Boston

Chapter 8: Who Killed God’s Banker?

Charles Raw,
The Money Changers: How the Vatican Bank Enabled Roberto Calvi to Steal 250 Million for the Heads of the P2 Masonic Lodge
(1992), Harvill, London

Chapter 9: The Death of Dag Hammarskjöld

A. Susan Williams,
Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa
(2011), Columbia University Press, New York

Chapter 10: The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe

Anthony Summers,
Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
(1985), Macmillan, New York

Chapter 11: The Crash of Enrico Mattei

Nico Perrone,
Enrico Mattei
(2001), Mulino, Bologna, Italy

Chapter 12: The Disappearance of Lin Biao

Ming-le Yao,
The Conspiracy and Death of Lin Biao
(1983), Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Chapter 13: The Elimination of General Zia

George Crile,
Charlie Wilson’s War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
(2003), Atlantic Monthly Press, New York

Chapter 14: The Submerged Spy

Jim Hougan,
Secret Agenda
(1984), Ballantine Books, New York

Chapter 15: Jack the Ripper

Paul Begg and John Bennett,
Jack the Ripper: CSI, Whitechapel
(2012), Andre Deutsch, London

Chapter 16: The Harry Oakes Murder

John Marquis,
Blood and Fire: The Duke of Windsor and the Strange Murder of Sir Harry Oakes
(2005), LMH Publishing Company, Kingston, Jamaica

Chapter 17: The Black Dahlia

Steve Hodel,
Black Dahlia Avenger: The True Story
(2003), Arcade Publishing, New York

Chapter 18: The Pursuit of Dr. Sam Sheppard

James Neff,
The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case
(2001), Random House, New York

Chapter 19: The Killing of JonBenet Ramsey

Lawrence Schiller,
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenet and the City of Boulder
(1999), HarperCollins, New York

Chapter 20: The Zodiac

Robert Greysmith,
Zodiac Unmasked
:
The Identity of America’s Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed
(2002), Berkley, New York

Chapter 21: The Vanishing of Jimmy Hoffa

Arthur A. Sloane,
Hoffa
(1991), MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Chapter 22: Death in Ukraine: The Case of the Headless Journalist

The International Federation of Journalists,
The Gongadze Inquiry: A Preliminary Investigation
(2005), International Federation of Journalists, Brussels, Belgium

Chapter 23: The Dubai Hit

Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal,
Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
(2012), Ecco, New York

Chapter 24: The Beirut Assassination

Nicholas Blanford,
Killing Mr. Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and Its Impact on the Middle East
(2006), I.B. Tauris, London

Chapter 25: Who Assassinated Anna Politkovskaya?

Anna Politkovskaya,
Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches
(2011), Melville House, Brooklyn, New York

Chapter 26: Blowing Up Bhutto

James P. Farwell,
The Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination & Instability
(2011), Potomac Books, Washington, D.C.

Chapter 27: The Case of the Radioactive Corpse

Mark Hollingsworth and Stewart Lansley,
Londongrad: From Russia With Cash
(2009), Fourth Estate, London

Chapter 28: The Godfather Contract

Alexander Stille,
Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
(1995), Pantheon, New York

Chapter 29: The Vanishings

Yoshi Yamamoto,
Taken! North Korea’s Criminal Abductions of Citizens of Other Countries
(2011), Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, Washington, D.C.

Chapter 30: The Oklahoma City Bombing

Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles,
Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed—and Why It Still Matters
(2012), William Morrow, New York

Chapter 31: The O. J. Simpson Nullification

Vincent Bugliosi,
Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away with Murder
(1996), W.W. Norton & Company, New York

Chapter 32: Bringing Down DSK

Didier Hassoux, Christophe Labbé, and Olivia Recasens,
L’Espion du President
(2012), Robert Laffont, Paris, France

Chapter 33: The MacDonald Massacre

Errol Morris,
A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
(2012), Penguin, New York

Chapter 34: The Knox Ordeal

John Follain,
A Death in Italy: The Definitive Account of the Amanda Knox Case
(2012), St. Martin’s Press, New York

Epilogue: The Enduring Mystery of the JFK Assassination

Gus Russo and Stephen Molton,
Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder
(2008), Bloomsbury USA, New York

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am deeply grateful to those who assisted my investigation of these unsolved crimes. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to Renata Adler, Natalie Altshuler, Robert Asahina, Richard Bernstein, Sidney Blumenthal, Svetlana Chervonnaya, Bob Coen, Carlo Calvi, Howard Dickman, Andrea DiRobilant, Chuck Downs, Susana Duncan, Harold Edgar, Ben Gerson, Andrew Hacker, Stuart Jacobson, Haroon Khan, Humayan Khan, Billy Kimball, Jules Kroll, Jim Hougan, Grant Manheim, Zhores Medvedev, Fred Miller, Eric Nadler, Jeff Paul, Magui Nougue-Sans, Mario Platero, Seth Roberts, Fabrice Rousselot, John Rubenstein, Gus Russo, Ko Shioya, and Robert Silvers.

Finally, I want to thank my editor Kelly Burdick at Melville House. The book benefitted enormously from his thoughtful suggestions and brilliant editing.

Parts of this book were adapted from reporting that I did for
Vanity Fair
,
The New York Sun
,
The Wall Street Journal
, and
The New York Review of Books
.

A portion of Chapter XIII, “The Elimination of General Zia,” is taken from an article I wrote for
Vanity Fair
(September 1989); a portion of Chapter XXVII, “The Case of the Radioactive Corpse,” is taken from an article that appeared in the
New York Sun
(March 19, 2008); portions of Chapter XXIII, “The Dubai Hit,” and Chapter XXIV, “The Beirut Assassination,” are taken from articles I wrote for the
Wall Street Journal
(March 27, 2010 and November 26, 2010). A portion of Chapter XXXII, “Bringing Down DSK,” appeared in
The New York Review of Books
(December 22, 2011), which was later expanded as
Three Days in May: Sex, Surveillance, and DSK
, published as an ebook in April 2012.