Cricket in the web the 1949 unsolved murder that unraveled politics in New Mexico
Paula Moore
- Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
- xi, 203 p. ill., map ; 24 cm.
Ovida "Cricket" Coogler was last seen alive entering a mysterious car driven by an unknown man in downtown Las Cruces, New Mexico, around 3:00 on the morning of March 31, 1949. Seventeen days later, her body was found in a hastily dug grave near Mesquite, New Mexico. This book presents the study of the murder and its aftermath.