02644nam a22003735i 4500 23900268 MeVbMML 20250305135120.0 241023s2025 nyu 000 0 eng 2024949124 9780316365789 (hardcover) 9780316366007 (ebook) DLC eng rda DLC pcc Jackson, Rick, author. 19417 Black tunnel white magic : a murder, a detective's obsession, and '90s los angeles at the brink / Rick Jackson, Matthew McGough, Michael Connelly. First edition. 2503 New York : Mulholland Books / Little, Brown and Company, 2025. xiv, 512 pages: illustrations; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "This is the story of Rick Jackson, a famed LA homicide detective and eventual cold case investigator, and the case that he's never managed to let go. In June 1990, a white male UCLA student was found stabbed to death in a tunnel near the infamous Spahn Ranch, where Charles Manson and his followers had lived. That night, Jackson and his partner, Frank Garcia, were called on the scene and soon focused their investigation on the young man's two male roommates, one Black and one white. Nothing about the case made sense, though- not the relationship between these young men, not the potential influence of Wicca (then a trend among youth, and closely tied to the moral panic around Satanism), not the justice system that tried the two roommates very differently, and not Los Angeles itself, which was and remains a fraught tinderbox of racial bias and violence. In straightforward, matter-of-fact prose, Jackson takes us through the events as he and his partner experienced them, with no foreknowledge of information that would emerge later in the case. Readers will feel as though they are a fly on the wall, piecing together the truth about what happened to Ron Baker as the detectives did themselves, day by day and clue by clue"-- Provided by publisher. Baker, Ronald 1969-1990 Death and burial case studies 19463 College students Los Angeles, California 19464 Homicide Investigation Los Angeles, California 19465 United States Politics and Gevernment 20th Century 19466 McGough, Matthew, author. 19418 Connelly, Michael, other. 19419 0 ibc orignew 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg ddc BOOK 30432 30432 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2025-02-19 35.00 3 1 364.15 JACK 40170 2025-05-06 2025-04-30 2025-02-19 BOOK 1