Murder in the Marshland

When Mookie Thompson's body was discovered on the edge of a marshland on the last road out of Queens, two pages of coded messages were found in his pocket. Deciphering the code became as much of a challenge for precinct detectives as finding his killer. Most people who knew the illiterate 36-year-old petty thief said Mookie didn't have a mean bone in his body, but when the investigation was turned over to the Cold Case Squad five years later, Detectives Danski and Litchfield discovered there was a different side of Mookie.