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After 26 years of research, twists, turns, dead ends, and psychic encounters, author Jim Cosgrove has written the true-crime memoir "Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer." Join him as he discusses this captivating, unsolved mystery about Frank McGonigle, family friend, Grateful Dead fan and former MU student who left his family home in 1982 and never returned. Adults. Please register.
After 26 years of research, revisions, twists, turns, dead ends, deadheads, and psychic encounters, author Jim Cosgrove has written the true-crime memoir "Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer." Hear about this captivating, unsolved mystery about Frank McGonigle, a family friend, Grateful Dead fan and former MU student who left his family home in 1982 and never returned.
Adults. Please register.
Cosgrove also is the author of a collection of essays from his time as a parenting columnist for The Kansas City Star as well as three children's books. You may be more familiar with his other persona, Mr. Stinky Feet, an entertainer of families throughout North America for more than 20 years. Find out more about him at www.jimcosgroveauthor.com.
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