Cricket in the Web: The 1949 Unsolved Murder That Unraveled Politics in New Mexico - Softcover

Moore, Paula

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826343422 ISBN 13: 9780826343420

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2009

Synopsis

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, and spawn generations of rumors that have polarized opinions of what happened to Coogler that windy March morning. Containing elements of mystery, conflict, power, fear, sex, and politics, the Coogler case has outlasted the brief amount of attention that most local unsolved murders receive. In this exhaustively researched study of the murder and its aftermath, Paula Moore provides the first objective account to examine the infamous murder and the events that unfolded in its wake.

About this title

About the Author

Paula Moore is the former executive assistant to the president of New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. She is coauthor of One Man's Word: A Seven-Decade Personal History.

From the Inside Flap

After exhaustive research, Paula Moore provides the first objective account of the 1949 murder of "Cricket" Coogler--a case that shook New Mexico politics.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826343422
• ISBN 13: 9780826343420
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 215