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Fall Guys : False Confessions and the Politics of Murder by Fisher Ph.D. B.A., Professor Jim is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fall Guys : False Confessions and the Politics of Murder about?
There was horror enough in the brutal slayings of two western Pennsylvania women, but when a malevolent detective framed two innocent boys in these unrelated cases, the evil compounded. In a compelling story of criminal detection written by the investigator himself, former FBI agent Jim Fisher provides the anatomy of an outrage. In the first of the cases, eleven-year-old Charlie Zubryd confessed that at the age of eight, he had murdered his widowed mother by shattering her skull with a hatchet. The crime was committed in the basement of the modest Zubryd home in a rural section of Sewickley Township in western Pennsylvania, not far from Pittsburgh. Following intense police questioning, young Zubryd confessed to the crime in March 1959, a full twenty-eight months after the bloody murder of his mother. Too young to prosecute, Charlie Zubryd was adopted after his confession and a brief stay in a mental ward. A childless couple gave Zubryd a new name and identity. It would be twenty years before Charlie Zubryd - now going by the name Chuck Duffy - would have any contact with his blood family. When Zubyrd/Duffy made an effort to get his real family back, he was rejected because his rela
Who reads Fall Guys : False Confessions and the Politics of Murder?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Fisher Ph.D. B.A., Professor Jim
- Publisher
- Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780809321032
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Social Science, Fiction