Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot

Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot

by Michael Arntfield
Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot

Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot

by Michael Arntfield

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Overview

An Amazon Charts most-read book.

Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot is a chilling, unflinching exploration of American crimes of the twentieth century and how one serial killer managed to slip through the cracks—until now.

In fall 1967, friends Linda Tomaszewski and Christine Rothschild are freshmen at the University of Wisconsin. The students in the hippie college town of Madison are letting down their hair—and their guards. But amid the peace rallies lurks a killer.

When Christine’s body is found, her murder sends shockwaves across college campuses, and the Age of Aquarius gives way to a decade of terror.

Linda knows the killer, but when police ignore her pleas, he slips away. For the next forty years, Linda embarks on a cross-country quest to find him. When she discovers a book written by the murderer’s mother, she learns Christine was not his first victim—or his last. The slayings continue, and a single perpetrator emerges: the Capital City Killer. As police focus on this new lead, Linda receives a disturbing note from the madman himself. Can she stop him before he kills again?


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781503942653
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Publication date: 10/01/2017
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Bestselling author Michael Arntfield is a veteran police officer, professor, and television host. Known by his students as “Profficer,” an endearing blend of his academic and law enforcement professions, he teaches criminology at Western University and is a previous visiting Fulbright Chair at Vanderbilt University. With fifteen years of experience as a police officer, Arntfield offers a unique perspective into unsolved murder cases that combines suspenseful storytelling, academic knowledge, and investigative technology. He is the lead investigator on the true-crime series To Catch a Killer on the Oprah Winfrey Network in Canada and is the author of Murder City: The Untold Story of Canada’s Serial Killer Capital. He is also Director of the Murder Accountability Project in the United States and both the founder and Director of the Western University Cold Case Society in Canada.

When he isn’t teaching, investigating cold cases, or writing about them, he is researching long-term crime trends and developing new television projects. His latest research is on cyberbullying, social media, and psychopathy.

Table of Contents

Prologue-Flagstaff xv

Chapter 1 Midwestern Gothic

Picnic Point 1

Young Americans 7

Soft Target 11

Penny Dreadful 17

Room 119 21

Chapter 2 The Sleepwatcher

April Fool 27

Night Swim 31

Dew Point 35

Black Umbrella 42

The Final Forty-Eight 45

Sentinel 49

Chapter 3 Sterling Hall

Swing Shift 55

"Nice Day for a Murder" 61

The Love Pirate 70

Boding Point 75

The New Year's Gang 78

Folklore 83

Chapter 4 Postage Paid

Book of Revelations 89

Open Water 92

High Wire 96

"Beyond Recognition" 100

Fan Fiction 103

Checkout 107

Chapter 5 Permafrost

Old Milwaukee 113

Due South 116

Christmas Past 119

Winning Numbers 123

Happy Hour 126

Gag Order 129

Boulder Creek 134

Chapter 6 The Vanishing Hitchhiker

Thin Air 145

Defiance 151

Taken 156

Familiar Figure 160

The Lost City 165

The Sweetheart Murders 169

Chapter 7 Deadfall

Tutelage 175

The Julie Murders 179

Synchronicity 183

The X-Factor 187

Ghost Camp 192

Repudiated 195

Chapter 8 Gate 4

Valentine Sally 205

The Long Walk 211

Hypnosis 215

Publish or Perish 222

Machinations 229

Exhumed 232

Chapter 9 Rural Route

As Seen on TV 237

Orange Socks 242

Senior Year 246

Hunting Season 249

Cooking the Books 253

Time and Punishment 258

Chapter 10 Scattered Ashes

Endgame 261

Remnant 267

Night Class 273

Cold Call 279

Cardsharps 291

Epilogue: Saboteur 297

Author's Note on Names 301

Acknowledgments 303

Selected Bibliography 307

Index 319

About the Author 345

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