{"product_id":"the-woman-in-blue-paperback","title":"The Woman in Blue (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(161, 2, 2);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Woman in Blue releases August 28, 2026. Order yours today.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Labor Day weekend, 1956, a six-week-old baby vanished from her carriage inside a crowded Sears department store in Hamden, Connecticut. Five days later, three boys fishing at Lake Whitney found her—sealed in a potato sack, weighted down with a rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor nearly seventy years, the disappearance of baby Cynthia Ruotolo has remained one of Connecticut's most haunting unsolved crimes. Investigators had several leads, but one stood out—a mysterious woman in a blue dress, seen in the Sears parking lot that afternoon. Composite sketches were drawn. Files were opened and reopened. The woman was never found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Peinkofer was investigating a different Connecticut case—the shaken-baby killings of nurse Virginia Jaspers—when he came across the Ruotolo file and noticed something the original investigation missed: this wasn't the family's first infant death. It wasn't their second, either.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on autopsy reports, forensic analysis, and firsthand interviews with surviving family members, Peinkofer reconstructs the case from the inside out—and lays out a methodical, evidence-driven argument for what really happened and why investigators were looking for the wrong woman from the very beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Woman in Blue\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is a cold case reopened by someone who knows exactly what to look for in the silences of an old autopsy report—and a sober reckoning with how many \"accidents\" get filed away because no one asked the right question at the right time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Peinkofer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54613288812823,"sku":"JP-WIB-PB","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0301\/3604\/1571\/files\/260710TWIBCoverCandiate3.jpg?v=1785992678","url":"https:\/\/geniusbookpublishing.com\/products\/the-woman-in-blue-paperback","provider":"Genius Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}