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Academic, Fiction, Non-fiction

Oracles can help you with academic, non-fiction, or fiction research as well as fact-checking your manuscript.

Help Yourself

If you want to try your hand at some do-it-yourself sites, below are some open-source, free resources. They change often so come back soon.

Research Is Murder! The A-Z of Crime/Mystery Research

I is for...

International Crime

www.State.gov has an easy-to-use search

Interpol has a not-very-obvious search tab in the upper right corner www.interpol.int

Interpol-U.S. bureau www.justice.gov/usncb/

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Famous Unsolved Crimes: Julia Stuart Poyntz

In June 1937, Julia Stuart Poyntz took a phone call at her hotel. She put on her hat and coat and walked out into the night. In her room, her clothes were neatly folded, her passport was in her drawer, and a candle was burning. She was never seen again.

Juliet Stuart Poyntz was one of the founding members of the American Communist Party. A graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University, she traveled all over the world promoting Communism, until she dropped out of the American Communist Party in 1934 in order to work as an agent for the OGPU, the secret police agency of the Soviet Union and predecessor of the KGB.

She received intensive training in espionage and returned to the United States. In 1936, she was recalled to Moscow for debriefing and to receive further instructions. But while she was there, she became disillusioned. She had been interrogated and her loyalty questioned. She had barely managed to allay suspicion before returning to the United States. Badly shaken, she quit her espionage work and openly denounced Communism. She told people she was thinking about writing her memoirs.

She left behind all of her belongings and her passport. She also left behind a bank account containing $10,500 which had not been touched since she was last seen.

Here are research tools to investigate the case.

New York State Missing Persons

Newspaper Archive

Doe Network

Marxists.org

Barnard College Archives

Ask Colorado

Colorado Residents

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