Welcome to Litsy!

�Riveting... a personal and highly original work of true-crime storytelling.� � John Douglas, former FBI criminal profiling pioneer and co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Mindhunter A chilling investigation into the unsolved �boy in the woods� murder; journalist Jim Cosgrove chronicles his decades-long struggle to uncover the truth of a family friend�s disappearance and death � perfect for fans of I'll be Gone in the Dark and Memorial Drive. For nine years, South Carolina officials struggled to identify �the boy in the woods,� a young man whose body had been discovered just south of Myrtle Beach in a fishing village called Murrells Inlet. Meanwhile, 1,200 miles away in Kansas City, Missouri, Frank McGonigle's family searched for him at Grateful Dead concerts and in the face of every long-haired hitchhiker they passed. Consumed by guilt for how they'd treated him, Frank's eight siblings slowly came to understand that � like Jerry Garcia sang � he's gone and nothin's gonna bring him back. Frank McGonigle was finally found � and identified as �the boy in the woods.� Four years later, the case still unsolved, Jim Cosgrove, a McGonigle family friend and investigative journalist, picked up the trail of Frank�s cold case and began uncovering connections to a ruthless local crime boss and blunders by the threadbare sheriff�s department. When his research began to stall, a chance meeting with the soft-hearted, straight-talking �energy reader� Carol Williams provided a metaphysical spark that reignited Jim's resolve. Although his work as a journalist trained him to be skeptical, Cosgrove found himself starting to become a believer when Carol provided details about Frank�s murder that turned out to be freakishly accurate. In 2019, Cosgrove returned to Murrells Inlet with one of Frank�s brothers to dredge up some old leads and settle Frank�s case once and for all�