Crime

Is this the end of the cold case?

On March 6, 1959, nine-year-old Candice “Candy” Rogers of Spokane, Washington, went out after school to sell campfire mints door-to-door. Sweet-natured with strawberry blonde curls and a button nose, she was small for her age. Her mother, Elaine, had one clear rule that Candy must be home before dark. But Candy never came home. Her disappearance triggered a 16-day manhunt involving thousands of people, the Marines and the US Air Force. In fact, three airmen lost their lives on the second day when their helicopter hit high tension cables and plummeted into the Spokane River.  After two weeks of searching for Candy, all detectives could find were her scattered mint boxes.

What’s wrong with the West?

It is 25 years since Theodore Dalrymple published Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass. In this now famous set of essays, Dalrymple, who worked as a psychiatrist in British prisons, describes the damage done to the poorest in society by the West’s progressive middle-classes, who encourage criminals to see themselves as victims and cheer on the destruction of the traditions and norms that once guided working-class life. On the other side of the Atlantic – and the other side of the middle-class divide – the writer Rob Henderson came to the same conclusions as Dalrymple. Henderson grew up in foster care in working-class California and, as