Scrapped: Justice and a Teen Informant - Couverture rigide

Peebles, Lisa; O'Brien, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 168513128X ISBN 13 : 9781685131289

Editeur : Black Rose Writing, 2021

Synopsis

"Scrapped captures the barren roads and fallow fields of Oswego County the way Capote captured Finney County, Kansas in In Cold Blood." -Tom Barbash, New York Times bestselling author of The Dakota Winters

Criminal defense lawyer Lisa Peebles was taken aback by a secretly recorded phone call and police interrogation video that surfaced in a 20-year-old kidnapping case. They held the stench of a cover-up. She recruited an investigative reporter to help unearth the truth and exonerate Gary Thibodeau, the man convicted in the 1994 kidnapping and murder of 18-year-old Heidi Allen.

Scrapped: Justice and a Teen Informant exposes the underbelly of a system built more for finality than justice. It's the true story of Peebles' pursuit of new evidence against three new suspects and her discovery that Heidi had lived a double life: convenience store cashier and undercover informant. The sheriff's office hid the truth after her death as the real killers roamed free. Peebles became a de facto prosecutor to prove their guilt and Gary's innocence. As Heidi's family stood by the sheriff, her remains were likely secreted right under their noses - probably inside a scrapped van and shipped to a car shredder in Canada.

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À propos des auteurs

Lisa Peebles has been head of the Federal Public Defender's Office in Syracuse, N.Y., for 10 years, and has been a lawyer in the office for the past 21. She's taken 30 cases to trial in that time, with nine acquittals. In 2014, the New York State Criminal Defense Lawyers Association gave her the Thurgood S. Marshall Award as the state's outstanding criminal practitioner. She's been a lawyer in the Syracuse area for 27 years.

John O'Brien was a reporter for The Post-Standard newspaper and Syracuse.com for 30 years, the last 10 as an investigative reporter. He's a co-author of the 1996 true-crime book Goodbye, My Little Ones. In 1993, The Post-Standard nominated him for a Pulitzer Prize for uncovering corruption in the local medical examiner's office. In 2017, he ended 35 years as a reporter to take a job as an investigator in Peebles' office. In 2018, the Syracuse Press Club inducted him onto its Wall of Distinction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Black Rose Writing
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 168513128X
• ISBN 13: 9781685131289
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 486
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible