Who Killed...? Pittsburgh, PA

Who Killed…? Pittsburgh, PA

by Jack Swint

Format: 6 x 9 softcover
Page Count: 172

ISBN: 978-1-60008-040-1
Price: $18.95
Publication Date: July 3, 2007

Book Description

The second book in our Who Killed…? series focuses Pittsburgh and its surrounding areas. The riverfront portal city is easily identified as the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Pittsburgh Steelers, but these sports franchises only represent a small part of the city’s economic development over the past twenty years. In May 2007, Pittsburgh was once again awarded “most livable city” by Places Rated Almanac— recognition Pittsburgh hasn’t been enjoyed since 1985, when current mayor Luke Ravenstahl was only five years old. During the twenty year time span between garnering the “most livable city” honor, the city’s murder rate was 2.1 times the national average, according to FBI statistics. It wasn’t until 2006 that Pittsburgh began to see a decline in its citizens being brutally killed. Another alarms statistic was the high rate of those same murders going unsolved. It’s here that we will begin to unfold the truth, fact, and fiction of the region’s killers and unsolved murders by asking the question, Who Killed…?

Who Killed…? depicts twenty of Pittsburgh’s most notorious, heinous, and mysterious unsolved murders. Through laborious research and interviews with investigators and families of the victims, Who Killed…? has laid out particulars of these unsolved crimes. These chapter-length sketches provide a glimpse into fifteen mysterious murders: from the frustrations of law enforcement officials, to grieving family members, to the coping of local communities trying to make sense of the random acts of madness. As a whole, Who Killed…? reveals the dark underbelly of a city still struggling to diffuse the rage and brutality that so many of its inhabitants possess.

While society’s momentary obsessions with sensationalistic unsolved murders quickly vanish, families and friends of these victims quietly suffer without closure. Who Killed…? aims to push these cases back into the public’s consciousness in hopes of bringing the guilty to justice. Readers with any information that may have significance to the investigation may contact the assigned investigators to these open cases or provide anonymous tips using the contact information provided at the end of each chapter.

Author Information

A former consultant for the popular television program A Current Affair, Jack Swint currently works as a marketing consultant for newspapers. Swint also authored Who Killed...? Cleveland, OH for Rooftop Publishing. He lives and writes in Northern Ohio.