Trackrs
Imagine living inside a true crime show—only this time, the cameras weren’t rolling, and the danger was real. That was the TRACKRS project.
“Cold cases aren’t just stories–they’re unfinished nightmares. TRACKRS unravels the long, frustrating hunt for a predator who thought he’d never be found.” More »
Melissa Suggitt – Independent Book Review
“TRACKRS by Michael Jacobs is a sharp and detailed record of a string of brutal crimes committed in the late 70s and early 80s by a serial rapist and murderer. TRACKRS (Task Force Review Aimed at Catching Killers, Rapists, and Sex Offenders) was a team of people and a database of information designed to catch other serial criminals and to severely reduce the numbers of cold cases. This book is not for the faint of heart…”
More »LitPick Review
“In a presentation unlike any other true crime story, Trackrs takes the reader through all the stages involved in the pursuit of a serial killer. The perpetrator assaulted six young women in Orange County, California, in the late 1970s, murdering five and killing the unborn child of the sixth. The narration provides a detailed chronicle of an intricate murder investigation put together by multiple law enforcement agencies in 1996.”
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Excerpt from TRACKRS
He probably shouldn’t have taken them with him. When Mel Jensen was transferred out of the Homicide Unit of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office in 1991, he took two unsolved homicide case files that he had been reviewing and packed them with his books and personal belongings. Technically, as the new supervisor of the Felony Panel, a separate division of the office, Jensen should have left the files in the unsolved cases cabinet drawer of the Homicide Unit when he was transferred. That’s where they would have remained, and it is likely no one would have ever paid any attention to them. But he didn’t.
For a government employee, a civil servant, this was somewhat unusual conduct. Within most government agencies, in my experience, the characteristics of being conscientious, innovative, or even being above average in productivity are not necessarily frowned upon but aren’t exactly encouraged either… More »