Cricket in the Web
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Cricket in the Web

The 1949 Unsolved Murder that Unraveled Politics in New Mexico

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

Cricket in the Web

The 1949 Unsolved Murder that Unraveled Politics in New Mexico

About this book

Ovida "Cricket" Coogler was last seen alive entering a mysterious car driven by an unknown man in downtown Las Cruces, New Mexico, around 3:00 on the morning of March 31, 1949. Seventeen days later, her body was found in a hastily dug grave near Mesquite, New Mexico. The discovery of the eighteen-year-old waitress's body launched a series of court inquiries and trials that would reshape the direction of New Mexico politics, expose political corruption, and spawn generations of rumors that have polarized opinions of what happened to Coogler that windy March morning.

Containing elements of mystery, conflict, power, fear, sex, and politics, the Coogler case has outlasted the brief amount of attention that most local unsolved murders receive. In this exhaustively researched study of the murder and its aftermath, Paula Moore provides the first objective account to examine the infamous murder and the events that unfolded in its wake.

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Information

Publisher
UNM Press
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9780826343420
eBook ISBN
9780826343437

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Preface
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Chapter One • Cricket’s Locale
  10. Chapter Two • Cricket
  11. Chapter Three • Sheriff Alfonso Luchini “Happy” Apodaca
  12. Chapter Four • Cricket’s Last Hours
  13. Chapter Five • The Body Is Found, Shoeless
  14. Chapter Six • The Body Handlers
  15. Chapter Seven • The Doña Ana County Grand Jury
  16. Chapter Eight • Politics and Payoffs
  17. Chapter Nine • Happy Apodaca’s Troubles Compound
  18. Chapter Ten • Jerry Nuzum
  19. Chapter Eleven • Dan Sedillo
  20. Chapter Twelve • Wesley Byrd and the Torture Trial
  21. Chapter Thirteen • Interesting Persons
  22. Chapter Fourteen • What Happened to People after the Case
  23. Epilogue
  24. Acknowledgments
  25. Appendix I • Cricket’s Last Evening—Possible Timeline
  26. Appendix II • The Many Colored Cars
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index