Wrong Guys Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four

Name: Wrong Guys Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four
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ISBN: 9781595584014

ISBN-10: 1595584013

ISBN-13: 9781595584014

Edition: 2008

Authors: Tom Wells, Richard A. Leo, Donald S. Connery

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A compulsively readable true-crime tale, with a damning argument about the relationship between the death penalty and false confessions, based on an Innocence Project case. "It's time for Virginia's governor to do something about the Norfolk Four....[This is] one of the most disturbing potential miscarriages of justice the commonwealth has seen in a long time."--The Washington Post, editorial, December 1, 2006 On July 8, 1997, nineteen-year-old sailor Billy Bosko returned to his home in Norfolk, Virginia, from a naval cruise to find his wife on the floor of their bedroom, raped and stabbed to death. In this gripping story of justice gone awry, four innocent men separately confess to the…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 9/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 342
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

TOM WELLS is the author of The War Within: America's Battle with Vietnam. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA.



Foreword




Discovery



The Neighbor



"I Did Not Kill Michelle"



The Roommate



"Everybody Had Me Believing That I Was Guilty"



Number Three



Three More



Tice



"Scrappy"



"Guess Who Did That?"



"I Would Have Told Them I Handed Oswald the Gun"



"You Got Nothing to Say, Right?"



Heavy Artillery


Acknowledgments


A Note on Sources


Notes


Bibliography


Index