Cricket in the Web: The 1949 Unsolved Murder that Unraveled Politics in New Mexico

by Paula Moore

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826343422
• ISBN13: 9780826343420
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.0"