Coming from a wide range of backgrounds geophysicists to "cadaver dog" specialists to chemists and rank-and-file cops the members of NecroSearch combine their skills to produce the most proficient (and most exciting) detective work since Sherlock Holmes. "Founded in 1991 as a nonprofit forensic investigative team, NecroSearch International specializes in homicide cases shelved because of "corpus indelecti" that is, a body cannot be produced as evidence that a murder has taken place. The "Pig People" at their research site Editorial Reviews For No Stone Unturned, A True Crime Classic Momentum carried the car out into the current, which grabbed the vehicle-still afloat even with the driver’s-side window open- and dragged it downstream." The water quickly drowned the engine, but it had served its purpose. The man threw the transmission into drive and stepped back, closing the door as the maroon Oldsmobile lurched forward, down the ramp, and into the river. The car roared to life the engine screamed to hurry and get it over with. One of the men leaned in and turned the key in the ignition. They took another stick and wedged it between the gas pedal and the driver’s-side seat, the pedal pressed to the floor. Quiet except for the whine of a million insects, the gentle lapping of the river, and the muted voices of the men.Īlone among the shadows that haunted the heavily wooded bank 45 miles northwest of Maryville, Missouri, the pair fixed a tree branch between the steering wheel and the front seat to keep the car from veering. The night air was as thick and muggy as a sauna. The two men worked quickly in the dark around the beat-up two- door sedan perched on a boat ramp facing the river. NecroSearch located this car in the Missouri River with the victim's body still in the trunk "I shall be as secret as the grave."-Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote Read about the expedition in Steve's posts FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. Jackson, who is writing a book FINDING ANASTASIA with the leader of the expedition, Peter Sarandinaki, and other search team members returned to Russia in June 2015 to continue the search for the Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov. Known early on as "The Pig People" because of their experiments in locating graves using the carcasses of pigs (because of their similarities to human bodies), NecroSearch has evolved and expanded into one of the most respected forensic investigation teams in the world.įollowing his participation in a NecroSearch expedition to Russia looking for the remains of a Russian noble, Jackson was voted in as a member of NecroSearch International in February 2015. Jackson recreates the genesis of NecroSearch International as a small eclectic group of scientists and law enforcement who volunteered their services to help locate the clandestine graves of murder victims and recover the remains and evidence to assist with the apprehension and conviction of the killers. Jackson, the author of BOGEYMAN and MONSTER, vividly tells the story of this incredible group and recounts some of their most memorable early cases that taken separately would make great true crime books. Necrosearch's most challenging cases are described, step-by-step, as these modern-day Sherlock Holmes's detect bodies and evidence thought irretrievable, and testify in court to bring cold-blooded killers to justice. In NO STONE UNTURNED by New York Times bestselling author Steve Jackson readers are taken on a fascinating, often-shocking journey into a realm of crime investigation of which few people are aware. Necrosearch boasts a brain trust of the nation's top scientists, specialists, and behaviourists who use the latest technology and techniques to help solve "unsolvable" crimes, no matter how decayed the corpse, no matter how cleverly the killer has hidden the victim's body. One of NecroSearch International's success stories detailed in NO STONE UNTURNED