This is exactly right.

I'm Kate Winkler-Dawson. I'm a journalist who's spent the last 25 years writing about true crime.

And I'm Paul Holes, a retired cold case investigator whose work some of America's most complicated cases

and solve them.

Each week, I present Paul with one of history's most compelling true crimes.

And I weigh in using modern forensic techniques to bring new insights to old mysteries.

Together, using our individual expertise, we're examining historical true crime cases through a 21st century lens.

Some are solved and some are cold, very cold. This is buried bones.

Music Hey, Kate, how's it going?

It's going really well.

I want to give some big props to one of our listeners.

Well, I'll give props to all of our listeners, but one in particular who I feel like knows me so well.

So she emailed me probably a couple of months ago and said, hey, I have something that I just want to send to you.

I found it. And I think you might like it. And since it's small, and I said, you know, I can take care

of the postage or whatever. And she just was really sweet. She sent it to me. And since it's small,

it was easy to get to me. So it is a book that I feel like comes close to the rareness of your,

what's the name of your medical book that you pulled out on the very first episode,

where you looked up, maybe it was chloroform, I can't remember, mercury, I think.

This is it here, yeah, this is the essentials of forensic medicine, 1892. And where did you get that? I can remember where you told me you got that from. Yeah, believe it or not, this was a hand-me-down for my dad. He kind of collected books, and I think he just was in a bookstore at some point in the past and bought it. And then when I saw it after getting into forensics,

it was like, oh, this is a really, I mean, cool book where you have, and I don't want to open up

too much, but you have the hand-drawn diagrams in it. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a really cool book.

So this listener, her name's Jody, sent it to me, and this is a book that's called The People's Common Sense Medical Advisor.

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