Monsters on the Loose
The True Story of Three Unsolved Murders in Prohibition Era San Diego

Americans have a fascination with sensational unsolved crimes, which remain in the public consciousness for years or even decades. The 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short, dubbed the Black Dahlia, has spawned hundreds of movies, TV shows, and fiction and true-crime books. There have probably been more bo......more

Well-researched true crime story Richard Carrico tells the story of three unsolved murders of young women in San Diego in 1931. Carrico did a vast amount of research for this book and even followed the key players after the tragic events. Virginia Brooks (who was only 10 years old at the time), Louis......more

I feel that the author spends a little too much time on history that isn’t relevant to the cases. I understand wanting to “set the stage” and give an understanding of what things were like at the time but I think this could be done in a much quicker fashion. There were a few minor typos as well but......more

Good Read It kind of droned on in some places over the what-ifs and details of the what might have been and the status of investigation at the time. There were a bit too many details and made it a little hard to swallow in too large bits. The information is great and the story was fantastic, but the......more

This was a well researched, well thought out, and well written book.......more