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Sto caricando le informazioni... Convenient Suspect: A Double Murder, a Flawed Investigation, and the Railroading of an Innocent Woman (edizione 2017)di Tammy Mal (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Patricia Rorrer's conviction and continued imprisonment is a terrifying commentary on our judicial system, the veracity of those who are sworn to serve and protect us and the manipulation of evidence that defies belief! Tammy Mal writes in painstaking detail about the known events, the incredible trial inconsistencies and leaves you near breathless with wonder that Patricia Rorrer was brought to trial in the first place, let alone convicted. A brilliant read, a frightening outcome. Thanks to Netgalley.com and Chicago Review Press Incorporated for sharing this title pre-release. This is a pretty confusing book - which is not entirely the fault of the author, as it's a confusing case. In the mid-90s, Patricia Rorrer was convicted of the murder of her ex-boyfriend's wife and small son. Intending to write a book about how a woman could commit such a horrific crime, Mal instead found a bungled investigation, mishandled evidence, and indications that the Pennsylvania State Police had long been covering up any evidence of alternate suspects in order to cover for their own cavalier attitude toward the case. It's been far too long now to figure out what really happened, and the details of the evidence are messy (it's hard to tell, actually, what evidence really exists and what has just been talked about for so long that people make their own assumptions about it). Mal doesn't do an outstanding job presenting the case, but she does lay out a pretty good argument that Rorrer was railroaded and deserves a new trial. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"On Thursday, December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, home. Four months later, when their bodies were found in a lonely patch of woods, the police would launch a three-year investigation leading to the arrest of Patricia Lynne Rorrer--a young mother who had never met either victim--as the monster responsible. In Pennsylvania's first use of mitochondrial DNA in a criminal case, Patricia Rorrer was quickly tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison without parole. But did the jury make the right decision? Is Patricia Rorrer truly guilty? As new evidence continues to surface, including allegations of evidence tampering, that question requires an answer even more. With a subject matter and storytelling style reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial, Convenient Suspect will keep readers on the edge of their seats. The book reveals information never before made public--information gathered directly from more than 10,000 official documents, including Pennsylvania State Police reports, FBI files, forensic lab results, and the 6,500-page trial transcript. After four years of intensive research, countless interviews with those involved, and hundreds of letters, phone calls, and personal visits with Patricia Rorrer, the truth about the evidence used to convict her can finally be revealed."-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Tammy Mal’s well researched and well written book calls into question the hair evidence that was used to convict Patricia Rorrer and does it well although sometimes labours over it a bit too much and at the risk of losing the reader’s interest. I also feel the book would have benefited from the inclusion of photographs and maps showing the key people involved and key locations.
If Mal is correct about the hair evidence then it raises questions whether Rorrer was the victim of a police force under pressure to solve a truly dreadful crime or were active participants in ensuring she was found guilty of a crime she did not commit.
A must read for aficionados of true crime novels. ( )