When your search for materials on a given case is itself a cold case
the true crime that's worth your time
From an esteemed colleague came the following query yesterday:
Have you ever heard of the Galbraith case? I can't seem to find a book on it.
He enclosed a link from the Oklahoman website, an archival piece from early 1985 that suggested Fatal Vision had echoes of the Galbraith family murders. Googling various search strings didn’t help much; Dr. Ben Galbraith isn’t the only dude who annihilated his family, plus there’s a bunch of JK Rowling pseudonym results fouling up the result set.
So it’s time to Ask The Readers!
Do you know that case, or any readings on that case, preferably in book form?
Can you help Eve and me with the cases we’re looking for materials on, respectively
the Doodler murders (to date, our esteemed colleague Elon Green’s excellent work for The Awl is the beginning and end of the biblio) and
some kind of scandal involving illegal abortions at Lankenau Hospital in Bryn Mawr, PA in the middle of the last century (my pops teased the story and then couldn’t help me winnow down the unenlightening results)?
Do you have a case you need help finding a book about — or a longread that’s better than a book you just finished, or a murder ballad?
Together, we know a lot of things and read a lot of things; let’s solve each other’s reading-list cold cases. — SDB