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Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of Americas best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions.
Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity. But few people understand just how or why they happen and, more important, the immeasurable consequences that often haunt the lucky few who are acquitted, years after they are proven innocent.
Now, in this groundbreaking anthology, fourteen exonerated inmates narrate their stories to a roster of high-profile mystery and thriller writersincluding Lee Child, Sara Paretsky, Laurie R. King, Jan Burke and S. J. Rozanwhile another exonerees case is explored in a previously unpublished essay by legendary playwright Arthur Miller. An astonishing and unique collaboration, these testimonies bear witness to the incredible stories of innocent men and women who were convicted of serious crimes and cast into the maw of a vast and deeply flawed American criminal justice system before eventually, and miraculously, being exonerated.
Introduced by best-selling authors Scott Turow and Barry Scheck, these master storytellers capture the tragedy of wrongful convictions as never before and challenge readers to confront the limitations and harsh realities of the American criminal justice system. Lee Child tells of Kirk Bloodsworth, who obsessively read about the burgeoning field of DNA testing, cautiously hoping that it held the key to his acquittaluntil he eventually became the first person to be exonerated from death row based on DNA evidence. Judge John Sheldon and author Gayle Lynds team up to share Audrey Edmundss experience raising her children long distance from her prison cell. And exoneree Gloria Killian recounts to S. J. Rozan her journey from that fateful knock on the door and the initial shock of accusation to the scars she carries today.
Together, the powerful stories collected within the Anatomy of Innocence detail every aspect of the experience of wrongful conviction, as well as the remarkable depths of endurance sustained by each exoneree who never lost hope.
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ANATOMY OF
INNOCENCE
Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
Edited by Laura Caldwell and Leslie S. Klinger
Introduction by Scott Turow and Barry Scheck
LIVERIGHT PUBLISHING CORPORATION
A Division of W. W. Norton & Company
Independent Publishers Since 1923
New York | London
This book owes its existence to a village of people: Our good friends and longtime agents Amy Moore-Benson and Donald Maass were instrumental in finding a home for the book, and attorneys Ed Klaris and Jonathan Kirsch shepherded us through various contractual, copyright and trademark issues. Megan Beatie and Meryl Moss donated their time as publicists. The Norton people were wonderful to work with: Robert Weil, who loved the project from the beginning and gave us overall advice; Will Menaker and Marie Pantojan, whose editorial hands were steady but sure; Peter Miller, whose publicity ideas and strategic planning were vital; and Mary Austin Speaker, whose beautiful design is evident throughout. Justice David Ellis of the Illinois Appellate Court, an Edgar Awardwinning author himself, was deeply involved with the project. Erin Kresse was the books original caretaker and creator of www.anatomyofinnocence.com, bringing her years of journalism and editorial expertise to the project. Ashley Stead and Alejandra Barcenas, the Student Directors of Life After Innocence, were key to working with our exonerees. Additional thanks go to all the student members from Life After Innocence, especially Katie Burnett, Jordan Fries, Sarah Patarino, Kathleen Hennessy, Margie Kennedy, Megan Fahey and Carly Cochran. Rob Warden of the Center on Wrongful Convictions graciously donated the Arthur Miller material and offered valuable advice. Of course, we want to express our immense gratitude to each and every one of our writer friends who contributed so much time and effort to bring these astonishing stories to the page and to publicize the book. Finally, we must share our awe and respect for each of the men and women, the exonerees, whose stories are presented here. Their courage shines as a beacon for everyone involved with the book.
Also by Laura Caldwell
Nonfiction
Long Way Home: A Young Man
Lost in the System and the Two
Women Who Found Him
The Izzy McNeil Series
Red Hot Lies
Red Blooded Murder
Red, White & Dead
Claim of Innocence
Question of Trust
False Impressions
Fiction
The Dog Park
The Good Liar
The Rome Affair
The Night I Got Lucky
Look Closely
The Year of Living Famously
A Clean Slate
Burning the Map
Also by Leslie S. Klinger
Annotated Volumes
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
The New Annotated Dracula
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes
The Annotated Sandman,
with Neil Gaiman
The Sherlock Holmes ReferenceLibrary
Nonfiction
Baker Street Rambles
Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, and
The Bookman: Pastiches, Parodies,
Letters, Columns & Commentary
(18951933), with S. E. Dahlinger
The Grand Game: A Celebration of
Sherlockian Scholarship,
with Laurie R. King
Anthologies
A Study in Sherlock: Stories Inspired by
the Holmes Canon, with Laurie R. King
In the Company of Sherlock Holmes:
Stories Inspired by the Holmes
Canon, with Laurie R. King
Echoes of Sherlock Holmes: Stories
Inspired by the Holmes Canon,
with Laurie R. King
In the Shadow of Edgar Allen Poe: Classic Horror Tales, 18141914,
with Laurie R. King
ABOUT THE EDITORS
LAURA CALDWELL is the best-selling author of fourteen novels as well as the acclaimed nonfiction work Long Way Home:A Young Man Lost in the System and the Two Women Who Found Him. Her short fiction has appeared in several award-winning anthologies. Caldwell formerly practiced as a civil trial attorney and now is a professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
In 2008, she founded Life After Innocence at Loyola, to aid persons wrongly convicted. Since its founding, Caldwell has served as LAIs director, working with dozens of staff members and law students who advocate for innocent people adversely affected by the criminal justice system, helping them reenter society and enabling them to reclaim their rights as citizens through individualized legal and support services and wider-reaching public policy initiatives. LAI helps them find homes to live in, connects them with jobs, teaches them the basic necessities for functioning in present-day society and assists them in expunging their records and pursuing compensation from the state. LAI is now a model for similar projects around the world.
Caldwell is grateful to the exonerees for having the courage to tell their stories so unflinchingly, and to the writers, who gave of themselves to ensure the book is the best it can be. She also thanks Leslie S. Klinger for his tireless efforts in coediting Anatomy of Innocence.
LESLIE S. KLINGER is the New York Times best-selling editor of the Edgar Awardwinning The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes and numerous other annotated books and anthologies. He also coedited, with Laurie R. King, the anthologies A Study in Sherlock, the Anthony Awardwinning In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, and Echoes of Sherlock Holmes.
Klinger formerly served as the SoCal Chapter President and on the National Board of the Mystery Writers of America and is the Treasurer of the Horror Writers Association. He practices tax, estate planning and business law in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, dog and three cats.
Born and raised in Chicago, Klinger is a longtime supporter of Loyola University Chicagos Life After Innocence and has volunteered his assistance on tax matters. He was thrilled to be asked by Laura Caldwell to coedit Anatomy of Innocence and to have an opportunity to work with her, the amazing individuals whose stories are told in the book and the equally amazing writers who tell them.
Exonerees Included in This Volume
Gloria Killian
Gloria Killian. Bluhm Legal Clinic Center on Wrongful Convictions. Accessed October 21, 2016. http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/ca/gloria-killian.html.
Gloria Killian. National Registry of Exonerations. Last modified March 13, 2014. http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3348.
Judge, Phoebe. Gloria Killian. The Story. Last modified June 10, 2013. http://www.thestory.org/stories/2013-06/gloria-killian.
Killian, Gloria, and Sandra Kobrin. Full Circle: A True Story of Murder, Lies and Vindication. Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press, 2012.
Leung, Rebecca. Wrongfully Accused? CBS News. Last modified August 26, 2003. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wrongfully-accused/.
Weinstein, Henry. Conviction for Murder Reversed. Los Angeles Times, March 14, 2002. http://truthinjustice.org/killian.htm.
David Bates
Berlatsky, Noah. When Chicago Tortured. Last modified December 17, 2014. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/12/chicago-police-torture-jon-burge/383839/
David Bates. Bluhm Legal Clinic Center on Wrongful Convictions. Accessed October 21, 2016. http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictionsyouth/exonerated/index.html?details=52.
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