Chapter 5 Death of a Newsboy Summary and Analysis

In 1983, while traveling to a seminar he was leading at Michigan State University, Ressler was notified by another agent about a murder of a newspaper delivery boy outside of Omaha, Nebraska. The boy's name was Danny Eberle and he had been apparently abducted during his early morning newspaper route. Ressler remembered to earlier cases of young boys going missing in a similar fashion in Iowa and Florida. Neither case had been solved in time to prevent additional murders. Ressler was eager to prevent a wave of murders in this case. He decided to abandon his plans to attend the seminar at Michigan State and instead headed down to Omaha to join the investigation.

After investigating the scene and the body that the police had eventually found dumped near the abduction site, Ressler speculated...