Ripple

<b>&#147;Riveting... a personal and highly original work of true-crime storytelling.&#148;&#160; &#151; John Douglas former FBI criminal profiling pioneer and co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller <i>Mindhunter</i></b><br> &#160;<br> <b>A chilling investigation into the unsolved &#147;boy in the woods&#148; murder; journalist Jim Cosgrove chronicles his decades-long struggle to uncover the truth of a family friend&#146;s disappearance and death &#151; perfect for fans of <i>I'll be Gone in the Dark</i> and <i>Memorial Drive</i>.</b><br><br>For nine years South Carolina officials struggled to identify &#147;the boy in the woods&#148; a young man whose body had been discovered just south of Myrtle Beach in a fishing village called Murrells Inlet.<br> &#160;<br> Meanwhile 1200 miles away in Kansas City Missouri&#160;Frank McGonigle's family searched for him at Grateful Dead concerts and in the face of every long-haired hitchhiker they passed. Consumed by guilt for how they'd treated him Frank's eight siblings slowly came to understand that &#151; like Jerry Garcia sang &#151; <i>he's gone and nothin's gonna bring him back</i>.<br> &#160;<br> Frank McGonigle was finally found &#151; and identified as &#147;the boy in the woods.&#148;<br> &#160;<br> Four years later the case still unsolved Jim Cosgrove a McGonigle family friend and investigative journalist picked up the trail of Frank&#146;s cold case and began uncovering connections to a ruthless local crime boss and blunders by the threadbare sheriff&#146;s department.<br> &#160;<br> When his research began to stall a chance meeting with the soft-hearted straight-talking &#147;energy reader&#148; Carol Williams provided a metaphysical spark that reignited Jim's resolve. Although his work as a journalist trained him to be skeptical Cosgrove found himself starting to become a believer when Carol provided details about Frank&#146;s murder that turned out to be freakishly accurate.<br>&#160;<br>In 2019 Cosgrove returned to Murrells Inlet with one of Frank&#146;s brothers to dredge up some old leads and settle Frank&#146;s case once and for all&#133;