Women Who Talk to the Dead
The True Story of 200 Forgotten Murder Victims and the Relentless Pursuit of Justice by an FBI Agent and a Detroit Police Detective

This is the story of two women who chose to undertake the intense, nerve-wracking, and often thankless task of restoring identities to unknown victims of violent crime who were buried in a potter's field in Detroit over the course of multiple decades. There is a lot of background about their lives a......more

This story is one of pure tenacity. Schweit dictates the stories of women in the gruesome pursuit of justice and dignity for unidentified homicide victims. The book outlines the various bureaucratic and technical challenges in launching Operation UNITED, the largest exhumation of its kind in FBI his......more

I’ll never drive past that cemetery the same way again. Women Who Talk to the Dead shook me. I’ve driven past United Memorial Gardens on Curtis Road more times than I can count, unaware of the history beneath the soil. After reading this book, I’ll never pass it again without thinking of the unnamed......more

It was very insightful and I enjoyed how Kate showed where they started and where they ended up. I liked how she built up the relationship, and the fact that they were both happy to stay quiet and work. Interweaving the discovery of bodies into the story was a great narrative, and you could really f......more

Katherine Schweit is my go-to authority on anything related to Mass Shooters, Active Shootings and related information and statistics. I’ve read all her books and this one adds the dimension of real people as individuals, victims, families and the cold case investigators. This one feels real, with e......more