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Skillings W: Mosaic Pieces

Mosaic Pieces

Surviving the Dark Side of American Justice

What happens when the dead refuse to stay buried?

For decades, Robertson County's funeral industry operated behind a veil of trust, tradition, and silence. But when graves were opened and long-buried questions began to surface, a troubling story emerged-one involving funeral homes, missing records, community loyalties, and allegations that shook an entire region.

Digging Up Bones is a gripping investigation into the life and legacy of funeral director Robert Lewis Wilks and the funeral business that surrounded him. Through historical records, court documents, local accounts, and cultural reflection, this book explores the hidden world behind the business of death and the people entrusted with caring for the dead.

More than a true-crime story, this is an examination of memory, accountability, grief, and the secrets that small communities often keep buried for generations. As graves are reopened and old wounds revisited, readers are confronted with difficult questions about trust, justice, and the stories we tell about the dead.

Part investigative narrative, part social history, and part reflection on mortality itself, Digging Up Bones takes readers on a haunting journey through one of the most controversial funeral home scandals in Tennessee history.

Some secrets die with the dead. Others wait to be uncovered.

When Truth Is Exhumed

Digging Up Bones

"In 1989, Ben Spencer was convicted of murdering businessman Jeffrey Young-a crime he didn't commit. Spencer to spent more than half his life in prison until independent investigators, the foreman of the jury that convicted him, and a new district attorney convinced a judge that Spencer had nothing to do with the killing. He was released from prison in 2022. Journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty spent years immersed in Spencer's case. She combed police files and court records, interviewed dozens of witnesses, and had extensive conversations with Spencer. In Bringing Ben Home, she weaves together two narratives: how an innocent Black man got caught up in and couldn't escape a legal system that refused to admit its mistakes; and what Texas and other states are doing to address wrongful convictions to make the legal process more equitable for everyone"--

A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Jus

Bringing Ben Home

UPDATED AND EXPANDEDOn a hot July night in 1995, Janet Downing was stabbed 98 times inside her Somerville, Massachusetts, home. Within hours, police identified 15-year-old Eddie O'Brien, the best friend of one of her sons, as the suspect.Eddie had no criminal history, no clear motive, and no apparent opportunity. Yet his case emerged during a national panic over juvenile "superpredators," when Massachusetts officials were pushing to prosecute more children as adults. His highly publicized trial helped change the state's juvenile laws.Attorney Margo Nash, appointed as Eddie's guardian ad litem, attended every court session and later gained access to the case files, forensic reports, and trial transcripts. Her conclusion was disturbing: Eddie could not have committed the murder.In this expanded second edition of The Politics of Murder, Nash goes deeper into newly unearthed evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, withheld exculpatory material, and manipulated forensic findings.Was Eddie O'Brien used to advance a political agenda? What will it take to overturn his wrongful conviction?

The Power and Ambition Behind "The Altar Boy Murder Case"

The Politics Of Murder 2nd Edition

Routledge Revivals

First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful imprisonment with a general analysis of how and why they occur. It deals in detail with the English system, but also provides comparisons with Scotland, France, and the United States. The authors spent three years collecting material from newspaper reports, trial transcripts, books, lawyers, the Home Office and - most important - interviews with the persons concerned. As a result, they have been able to analyse objectively the existing system of justice; they have isolated and identified the areas in which the system is at fault, and the successive hazards which may confront the innocent man suspected of a criminal offence; they have also revealed the many obstacles which have to be overcome by the wrongfully imprisoned man seeking to establish his innocence and regain his liberty. This topical and convincingly argued book should appeal not only to students of law and sociology, or to lawyers, policemen, criminals, and others involved in the system of criminal justice, but also to the man in the Wormwood Scrubs omnibus.

Mistaken Convictions and their Consequences

Wrongful Imprisonment

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Gripping - you'll be riveted by this multi-layered tale of small-town intrigue.' Glamour Tall and handsome, Jack St. Bride has everything going for him, until a string of lies resulting from a student's crush leaves his reputation in tatters and forces him to leave his hometown. Arriving in the town of Salem Falls, he is ready to seize the chance of a new life, until the malicious interest of a group of bored teenage girls drag him back into the same situation he was forced to flee from. Jack knows he's innocent. But in a small town, even the best-hidden secrets have a way of coming to light. . . MAD HONEY, the stunning and compelling Sunday Times bestseller by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan is available now

A totally gripping page turner of small town secrets from the bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper

Salem Falls

**Pre-order Bella Mackie's new 2026 novel CLAWS OUT! now**Grace Bernard is on a murderous mission... to avenge her mother, she plans to do away with every member of her family, one awful rich person at a time. And then she's imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit. Entertaining, shocking and deliciously addictive.THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'I loved this book' RICHARD OSMAN'Funny, sharp, dark and twisted' JOJO MOYESThey say you can't choose your family. But you can kill them.Meet Grace Bernard.Daughter, sister, serial killer...Grace has lost everything.And she will stop at nothing to get revenge.------------------------------'Funny and furious and strangely uplifting. Grace is a bitter and beguiling anti-hero with a keen eye for social analysis - even in her most grisly deeds, you never stop rooting for her' PANDORA SYKES'Deliciously addictive...brilliantly executed' i PAPER'Addictive... Grace Bernard is one of the most intriguing and bewitching protagonists I've read in years' EMMA GANNON'A funny, compulsive read about family dysfunction and the media's obsession with murder' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE'You'll be gripped... Grace's emotional detachment throughout will give you chills' COSMOPOLITAN'Hilarious and dark' ELLE'Ironic twists and caustic commentary on everything from liberal guilt to the consumerist con that is "selfcare" sharpen this debut novel' OBSERVER'Brilliantly tongue-in-cheek stuff from the Vogue columnist' IRISH INDEPENDENT'Witty, waspish satire of a murderer with no regrets' GRAZIA'Original, funny, unique and such a refreshing read' PRIMA'A deliciously dark debut novel' RED'One very entertaining read' WOMAN'S WAYHow To Kill Your Family was number 1 in the Sunday Times paperback chart on 26/04/2022

How to Kill Your Family

THE GHOST IN YOU

OPERATION EVASION

First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful imprisonment with a general analysis of how and why they occur.

The Boston police officers who brutally beat Michael Cox at a deserted fence one icy night in 1995 knew soon after that they had made a terrible mistake. The badge and handgun under Cox's bloodied parka proved he was not a black gang member but a plainclothes cop chasing the same murder suspect his assailants were. Officer Kenny Conley, who pursued and apprehended the suspect while Cox was being beaten, was then wrongfully convicted by federal prosecutors of lying when he denied witnessing the attack on his brother officer. Both Cox and Conley were native Bostonians, each dedicating his life to service with the Boston Police Department. But when they needed its support, they were heartlessly and ruthlessly abandoned.A remarkable work of investigative journalism, The Fence tells the shocking true story of the attack and its aftermath—and exposes the lies and injustice hidden behind a "blue wall of silence."

A Police Cover-up Along Boston's Racial Divide

The Fence

What happens when the machinery of justice is captured by the incentives of the people who run it? Dr. John M. Cobin answers from the inside. Wrongly convicted after an act of self-defense, this American-born economist spent five years and five months in a Chilean prison despite physical and forensic evidence of his innocence. Surviving Chilean Justice is both a first-person memoir of that ordeal and a public-choice analysis of why it happened: how prosecutors, judges, prison officials, and politicians respond to incentives rather than truth, and why political persecution flourishes in systems with weak accountability. Across twenty chapters, Cobin recounts life inside Chilean cellblocks, the workings of the criminal-justice bureaucracy, and the faith that sustained him - while applying the analytical tools of public choice economics that he taught for nearly three decades. Book 05 of the Alertness Books economics line, with references and suggested further reading.

Surviving Chilean Justice

Beatriz Walking for Justice

Mosaic Pieces

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