Vanished in Vermillion, Lou Raguse
Vanished in Vermillion, Lou Raguse
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Vanished in Vermillion
The Real Story of South Dakota's Most Infamous Cold Case

Author: Lou Raguse

Narrator: Lou Raguse

Unabridged: 9 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/07/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, True Crime, Law


Synopsis

The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the script on a typical investigation narrative, revealing the biggest law enforcement embarrassment in South Dakota history.

In May 1971, Pam Jackson and Sherri Miller were two seventeen-year-olds driving to an end-of-the-school-year party in a rundown Studebaker Lark, when they seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth. Police back then didn't do enough to try and find them. Investigators thirty years later did too much. Two families endure decades of pain as they await answers of what happened to their girls. When a third family is pulled into the mystery, they quickly learn their nightmare is just beginning.

About Lou Raguse

Lou Raguse is a journalist based in Minnesota specializing in crime and courts. Since 2005, he's reported for local NBC, CBS, and FOX affiliates in Minnesota, New York, Arizona, and South Dakota.

Early in his career, Raguse developed a niche for crime reporting and has covered national cases such as the murder of George Floyd and the resulting trials, the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and the kidnapping and escape of thirteen-year-old Jayme Closs.

Besides countless regional Emmys and other broadcast news awards, Raguse produced an eight-part podcast on the Closs case, 88 Days: The Jayme Closs Story, which won an Edward R. Murrow award and was a top-ten performer on the iTunes podcast charts.

Outside of work, Raguse loves backyard barbeques with his family, playing fantasy football, and hunting down vintage Star Wars toys for his two kids.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lynds | ReadbyLynds on February 21, 2023

"๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž," ๐ด๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘™๐‘’ ๐ฝ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘‘. "๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”."โ  โ  Calling all true crime fans...you do not want to miss this book about the disappearance of two small town teenagers in 1971 and how law enforcement went about solving their cold case. โ  โ  This unique, bizarre cold c......more

Goodreads review by SundayAtDusk on January 11, 2023

It's hard not to see how ironic it was for two 17-year-old girls to disappear on the way to a late spring gravel pit keg party, when they had never been to a keg party before that night. These weren't party girls or girls living in a dangerous big city. Yet the local sheriff who starts the investiga......more

Goodreads review by Brendan on November 26, 2022

Holy bad policing, Batman! Vanished in Vermillion by Lou Raguse is one of the best documented stories of terrible police work I have ever read. Chronicling the disappearance and search for Pam Jackson and Sherri Miller in 1971, Raguse covers all aspects of the case from beginning to end. I often find......more

Goodreads review by Danielle on March 01, 2023

I love to see real journalism and this is a great example! Raguse is masterful, not only in his pursuit of truth in this case but in his method of presenting it to us as well. Pam and Sherri vanished into thin air in 1971 on their way to a party. They weren't party girls so they were having trouble f......more

Goodreads review by Heather on January 02, 2023

Pam Jackson and Sherri Miller were the โ€œgood girlsโ€ in town. They didnโ€™t drink or smoke weed and had never even been to a party before. After hearing about a party out near Old Highway 77 the girls decide that they want to check it out. They met up with a car of boys that night looking for direction......more