Dark Paths Cold Trails
Dark Paths, Cold Trails: A Mountie's Quest to Link Serial Killers to Their Victims by Doug Clark is a gripping true crime account of how Canadian policing entered the digital age to confront a new breed of predator. Centered on Inspector Ron MacKay, a Saskatchewan farm boy turned RCMP revolutionary, the book traces the creation of ViCLAS—the Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System, a groundbreaking database that helped connect serial rapes and murders across Canada.
From the haunting 1986 murder of 11-year-old Alison Parrott to the pursuit of Paul Bernardo, the so-called Scarborough Rapist, Clark details how traditional investigative methods were no longer enough. Through behavioral profiling, forensic psychiatry, and geographic analysis, MacKay and his team pioneered a high-tech approach to catching the country’s most elusive criminals.
Perfect for fans of forensic innovation, criminal psychology, and Canadian justice history, Dark Paths, Cold Trails is a sobering look at how law enforcement adapted to face the darkest corners of human behavior.
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- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- 0002000784
- January 1, 2002
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- 352
- L 23.6cm x W 16.2cm x H 3.1cm
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Acceptable: All pages are intact; the cover is intact. The spine, cover, pages and dust jacket (if applicable) may show signs of considerable wear such as marks, wears, cuts, bends and crushes. Pages can include limited notes in pen or in highlighter, but the notes do not obscure the text. May have a remainder mark (usually black or red in colour and is usually a dot or line on the bottom of the book on the page edges).