The dread, the drama, and the hope of a break in one of the
country's oldest active missing-child investigations On a cold
November afternoon in 1951, three young boys went out to play in
Farview Park in north Minneapolis. The Klein brothers-Kenneth Jr.,
8; David, 6; and Danny, 4-never came home. When two caps turned up
on the ice of the Mississippi River, investigators concluded that
the boys had drowned and closed the case. The boys' parents were
unconvinced, hoping against hope that their sons would still be
found. Sixty long years would pass before two sheriff's deputies,
with new information in hand and the FBI on board, could convince
the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to reopen the case.
This is the story of that decades-long ordeal, one of the oldest
known active missing-child investigations, told by a writer whose
own research for an article in 1998 sparked new interest in the
boys' disappearance. Beginning in 2012, when deputies Jessica
Miller and Lance Salls took up the Kleins' cause, author Jack
El-Hai returns to the mountain of clues amassed through the years,
then follows the trail traced over time by the boys' indefatigable
parents, right back to those critical moments in 1951. Told in
brisk, longform journalism style, The Lost Brothers captures the
Kleins' initial terror and confusion but also the unstinting
effort, with its underlying faith, that carried them from psychics
to reporters to private investigators and TV producers-and
ultimately produced results that cast doubt on the drowning verdict
and even suggested possible suspects in the boys' abduction. An
intimate portrait of a parent's worst nightmare and its terrible
toll on a family, the book is also a genuine mystery, spinning out
suspense at every missed turn or potential lead, along with its
hope for resolution in the end.
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