Deborah Halber has worked as a journalist, in public relations and writer and editor for Tufts University and MIT. A freelance journalist since 2004, her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, MIT Technology Review, Symbolia, and Inked. Her book, The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2014.

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