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Here is one for true crime fans!  A riveting story by author Robert Fitzgibbon entitled, “Murder in Salem Massachusetts: The Death of Frances Cochran.”

Journey back to July 17^th, 1941 just north of Boston in the  City of Lynn, Massachusetts where an attractive nineteen-year-old Frances Cochran is picked up by an unknown driver in a mysterious black automobile.  She is never heard from again.   Her mutilated body is found days later in a lover’s lane in Salem, a city known for its macabre past.    Decades roll by with police following up on thousands of leads.   The murder makes national headlines and is tangled up with other unsolved murders including the 1947 Los Angeles Black Dahlia case. Decades roll by with police following up on thousands of leads but the case remains unsolved.    Rob delves into stories of the mysterious, eerie and forgotten.  And this latest one is true chiller!

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It happened on August 15, 1945, as Bostonians celebrated the end of World War II.  A well-dressed woman asked a teenage newsboy to watch her newborn baby,  promising to return after running a quick errand.  She never did.  “Little Mister Victory”: A Daughter’s Search for the Woman Who Abandoned Her Father on VJ Day,” is the true story of a quest, by the baby’s daughter, to find the woman who abandoned her father.

Novelist and historian David Kruh teamed up with the daughter Tina Garvey Drzal to solve a life-long mystery.  It is a riveting story of family secrets, the impact of legacy and colorful Boston history that presents some shocking surprises along the way!