by Lisa Black
Date Found: January 26, 1936
Victim: Florence Polillo (W/F)
Victim’s Age: 41
Location Found: 2300 block of East 20th
Date Found: June 5, 1936
Victim: W/M (The Tattooed Man)
Victim’s Age: 20s
Location Found: Kingsbury near 55th
Date Found: July 22, 1936
Victim: W/M
Victim’s Age: c. 40
Location Found: Clinton Road
Date Found: September 10, 1936
Victim: W/M
Victim’s Age: 20s
Location Found: East 37th & Kingsbury
Date Found: February 23, 1937
Victim: W/F
Victim’s Age: 20s
Location Found: Euclid Beach
Date Found: June 6, 1937
Victim: Rose Wallace (B/F)
Victim’s Age: 35
Location Found: Lorain-Carnegie Bridge
Date Found: July 6, 1937
Victim: W/M
Victim’s Age: 35–40
Location Found: West 3rd & Cuyahoga River
Date Found: May 2, 1938
Victim: W/F
Victim’s Age: 25–30
Location Found: West 3rd & Cuyahoga River
Date Found: August 16, 1938
Victim: W/F
Victim’s Age: 30s
Location Found: East 9th & Shore Drive
Victim: W/M
Victim’s Age: 30s
Date Found: July 22, 1950
Victim: Robert Robertson (W/M)
Victim’s Age: 44
Location Found: East 22nd & Lake Erie
YOUNGSTOWN
Date Found: June 30, 1939
Victim: W/F
Location Found: Near Tracks
NEW CASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA
Date Found: Spring 1923
Victim: skeleton
Location Found: swamp
Victim: skeleton
Location Found: swamp
Victim: head
Victim’s Age: 40–60
Location Found: swamp
Date Found: 1924
Victim: decomposed body
Location Found: swamp
Victim: skeleton
Location Found: swamp
Date Found: July 1, 1936
Victim: W/M
Location Found: swamp
Date Found: October 13, 1939
Victim: W/M
Victim’s Age: 20s
Location Found: by the tracks
Date Found: May 3, 1940
Victim: W/M
Victim’s Age: 30–40
Location Found: boxcar
Victim: James D. Nicholson
Victim’s Age: 30
Location Found: boxcar
Victim: W/F
Victim’s Age: 30s
Location Found: boxcar
Date Found: 1941
Victim: skeleton
Victim’s Age: swamp
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About the Author
LISA BLACK is a latent fingerprint examiner in Florida and a former forensic scientist for the Cleveland coroner’s office. She is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and has testified in more than forty-five homicide trials. This is her third Theresa MacLean novel.
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Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
TRAIL OF BLOOD. Copyright © 2010 by Lisa Black. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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FIRST EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Black, Lisa, 1963–
Trail of blood / Lisa Black.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-06-198933-9
1. MacLean, Theresa (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Women forensic scientists—Fiction. 3. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 4. Cold cases (Criminal investigation)—Fiction. 5. Cleveland (Ohio)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3602.E283T74 2010
813'.6—dc22
2010002953
ePub Edition © August 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-201081-0
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