MURDER ON THE RAILS The True Story of the Detective Who Unlocked the Shocking Secrets of the Boxcar Serial Killer

Hardcover. 28 States, 47 dead bodies, a killer that vanishes into the night. How can the police capture America's most mobile serial killer? Featuring Robert Silveria, Jr. When a down-on-his-luck Vietnam veteran is found bludgeoned to death in a railroad track-side camp frequented by drifters, Detective Bill Palmini is charged with solving the vicious murder. Even as the veteran cop is sending an informant into the transient underworld, similarly brutalised bodies are being discovered in rail yards and camps across the country. Palmini and a team of police digging into the murders soon find themselves immersed in the grim and brutal world of the Freight Train Riders of America, a brotherhood of rail-riders who live by a twisted code of thievery, fraud and violence. Palmini finds himself inexplicably bonding with the Boxcar Serial Killer and the interrogations uncover a seemingly unending series of bloody slayings. Illus. 310pp. h/back.`From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Nr F. in Nr. F. dw.