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Skillings W: Mosaic Pieces

Mosaic Pieces

Surviving the Dark Side of American Justice

The fascinating story of how two brothers-one an English professor, the other a cop, and as different as night and day-tag team as authors to solve North Carolina's most notorious cold case ...

A MURDER ON CAMPUS: The Professor, The Cop, And North Carolina's Most Notorious Cold Case by Brian and Cameron Santana is a true crime investigation that unveils the shocking story behind the brutal 1973 murder on campus of 19-year-old Virginia Marie Olson.

On April 15, 1973, two high school students discovered Olson's body near the campus of the University of North Carolina-Asheville. The cold case that followed would span over 50 years, involving three generations of detectives and the Asheville Police Department and North Carolina SBI as they worked tirelessly to uncover the truth. Olson's murder was horrifically violent-she had been bound, raped, and stabbed to death, leaving the Asheville community in shock.

The true crime book takes readers through law enforcement's dramatic efforts to find Olson's killer, facing numerous obstacles along the way, from the abduction of another UNCA student in 1974 to a rape and murder victim's body discovered near Olson's crime scene in 1978. Whispers about the killer's identity have circulated for decades, with theories ranging from an escaped mental health patient to one of North Carolina's most notorious serial killers-until now.

A MURDER ON CAMPUS is the first to tell the gripping story of this unsolved crime and the surprising twists that led to the authors' revelation of the killer's identity in North Carolina's most notorious cold cases. Written by two brothers, one a cop and the other an English professor, this book offers a unique and fascinating perspective on a case that has haunted Buncombe County for generations.

The Professor, The Cop, And North Carolina's Most Notorious Cold Case

A MURDER ON CAMPUS

In the quiet suburb of Simi Valley in 1978, the unthinkable shattered a family forever. Twenty-four-year-old Rhonda Wicht and her four-year-old son, Donnie, were brutally slain in their own home-a place that should have been their sanctuary. Their lives were cut short in an act of unspeakable violence that left a community reeling, and a sister's heart forever broken.
For nearly forty years, their accused killer sat behind bars-convicted, condemned, and written into history as the man responsible. But when he was pardoned in 2017, everything changed. The justice Shelley Hamilton had clung to was ripped away, leaving her not with closure, but with torment-the devastating belief that a guilty man had been set free, while her sister and nephew were left forsaken by the system that had once spoken for them.
The Forsaken is the story of darkness and betrayal-but also of resilience, love, and one woman's refusal to let her sister and nephew be forgotten. Shelley's voice echoes through these pages, a heartbroken reminder that sometimes, justice does not merely fail-it is undone. Her relentless pursuit is not only for Rhonda and Donnie, but for truth itself, even when the courts and public opinion are willing to turn away.
Shocking, deeply human, and profoundly moving, this book pulls readers into a decades-long struggle between memory and doubt, law and conscience. It is a reminder that behind every headline lies a devastated family...and that even against the tide of history, one woman's love refuses to be silenced.

The Forsaken

Murray Lawrence Jr. is serving life without parole for a murder he did not commit.There was no physical evidence connecting him to it. No DNA, no weapon, no witness who ever placed him there. What the State had instead was a man who confessed to the killing, changed his story only after investigators offered him a way out, and named Murray in the version that saved him.This book lays out that record in full. The coercion. The suppressed evidence. The case for Murray's innocence that the courts have never had to answer.There is also a legal question still open. This book follows it all the way to its conclusion.THE RECORD DOES NOT REQUIRE BELIEF. IT REQUIRES ATTENTION.WWW.JUSTICEFORMURRAYLAWRENCEJR.COM

Sentenced to Life Without Parole in a State That Never Proved Jurisdiction

Life Without Jurisdiction

'A remarkable story' - Arun Kundnani, author of The Muslims are Coming!

In 2003, 23-year-old Uzair Paracha was arrested by the US government and branded a terrorist. A Pakistani man living in New York, he was accused of providing 'material support' to al-Qaeda - a vague, catch-all charge invented in the chaotic aftermath of 9/11. He was offered a plea deal but refused, knowing he was innocent.

What followed was a nightmare: years in solitary confinement, a trial built on fear instead of facts, and a justice system determined to make an example of someone who they thought looked the part. Uzair's case wasn't an anomaly: it was the blueprint.

The Man Who Refused to Plead Guilty is more than one man's story: it's a stark reflection of the path the US chose after 9/11. A path that reached for demonisation before understanding, punishment before truth. Uzair Paracha's experience lays bare the human cost of a vengeful nation, how a heart filled with principle can find some small semblance of justice.

How a Muslim Convicted of Terrorism Won His Freedom

The Man Who Refused to Plead Guilty

**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

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER          ‘I loved this book’ RICHARD OSMAN          ‘Funny, sharp, dark and twisted’ JOJO MOYES          ‘Chilling, but also laugh-out-loud funny. Another corker’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

How to Kill Your Family

"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"--

How states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder. In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man from Dallas, was convicted of murdering white businessman Jeffrey Young—a crime he didn’t commit. From the day of his arrest, Spencer insisted that it was “an awful mistake.” The Texas legal system didn’t see it that way. It allowed shoddy police work, paid witnesses, and prosecutorial misconduct to convict Spencer of murder, and it ignored later efforts to correct this error. The state’s bureaucratic intransigence caused Spencer to spend more than half his life in prison. Eventually independent investigators, new witness testimony, the foreman of the jury that convicted him, and a new Dallas DA convinced a Texas judge that Spencer had nothing to do with the killing, and in 2021 he was released from prison. As Spencer’s fight to clear himself demonstrates, our legal systems are broken: expedience is more important than the truth. That is starting to change as states across the country implement new efforts to reduce wrongful convictions, and one of the states leading the way is Texas. Award-winning journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty has spent years digging into this issue, and she has immersed herself in Spencer’s case. She has combed police files and court records, interviewed dozens of witnesses, and had extensive conversations with Spencer, and in Bringing Ben Home she threads 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. By turns fascinating and enraging, personal and provocative, Bringing Ben Home is the powerful story of one innocent man who refused to admit that he was guilty of murder, and how his plight became part of a paradigm shift in how the legal system thinks about innocence as it institutes new methods to overturn wrongful convictions to better protect people like Ben Spencer.

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

Bringing Ben Home

Law and Criminology (R0)

&lt;div&gt;The book reviews the origin and development of the exclusionary rule in China, and systematically explains the problems and challenges faced by criminal justice reformers. The earlier version of the exclusionary rule in China pays more attention to confessions obtained by torture and other illegal methods, reflecting that the orientation of the rule aims mainly to prevent wrongful convictions. Since the important clause that human rights are respected and protected by the country was written in the Constitution in 2004, modern notions such as human rights protection and procedural justice have been widely accepted in China. The book compares various theories of the exclusionary rule in many countries and proposes that the rationale of human rights protection and procedural justice should be embraced by the exclusionary rule. At the same time, the book elaborately demonstrates the thoughts and designs of the vital judicial reform strategy--strict enforcement of the exclusionary rule, including clarifying the content of illegal evidence and improving the procedure of excluding illegal evidence. In addition, the book discusses the influence of the exclusionary rule on the pretrial procedure and trial procedure respectively and puts forward pertinent suggestions for the trial-centered procedural reform in the future.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;In the appendix, the book conducts case analysis of 20 selected cases concerning the application of the exclusionary rule. This is the first book to give a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the exclusionary rule of illegally obtained evidence in China. The author of the book, senior judge of the Supreme People’s Court in China, with his special experience of direct participation in the design of the exclusionary rule, will provide the readers with thought-provoking explanation of the distinctive feature of judicial reform strategy and criminal justice policy in China.&lt;/div&gt;

Jingkun Liu

Theory, Case, Application

The Exclusionary Rule of Illegal Evidence in China

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

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: When Truth Is Exhumed

Digging Up Bones

Clarance Goode Jr. has been on Oklahoma's death row for nearly nineteen years for three murders he did not commit.
No DNA. No fingerprints. No weapons. No physical evidence of any kind placing him at the Thompson house on the night of August 25, 2005. What the state had was the word of a woman who had threatened her brother's life and was never charged, the word of a man who told police he was blacking out on a drug cocktail the night of the killings, and bullets "found" by a Tulsa detective later convicted of planting evidence. Forty-two people had their convictions overturned because of that detective. Clarance Goode has never been granted a hearing.
The Weight of Someone Else's Sin tells his whole life: the boy on the north side of Tulsa who bit his baby brother's finger on his third birthday, the teenager followed through stores and thrown to the ground in front of his own home, the young father who made choices he is not proud of and has owned ever since, the man who rebuilt after federal prison, buried his father, lost his two closest friends in a single week, then answered the phone when someone he knew called for help. That phone call put him within reach of people who would lie to save themselves. A prosecution built on those lies did the rest.
The Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood, Clarance's spiritual advisor, has heard him confess to everything he ever did. He has NEVER heard him confess to this. Hood has accompanied thirteen people to their executions. He knows what guilt sounds like. He knows what innocence sounds like. This book is his witness.
Clarance Goode will not plead guilty to a crime he did not commit, not for a life sentence, not for anything. The state of Oklahoma is preparing to kill him anyway. Read his story. Remember his name. Then do something about it.

The Story of an Innocent Man on Oklahoma's Death Row

The Weight of Someone Else's Sin

Mosaic Pieces

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