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Unraveling a twenty-five-year tale of multiple murder and medical deception, The Death of Innocents is a work of first-rate journalism told with the compelling narrative drive of a mystery novel. More than just a true-crime story, it is the stunning expose of spurious science that sent medical researchers in the wrong direction--and nearly allowed a murderer to go unpunished. On July 28, 1971, a two-and-a-half-month-old baby named Noah Hoyt died in his trailer home in a rural hamlet of upstate New York. He was the fifth child of Waneta and Tim Hoyt to die suddenly in the space of seven years. People certainly talked, but Waneta spoke vaguely of "crib death," and over time the talk faded. Nearly two decades later a district attorney in Syracuse, New York, was alerted to a landmark paper in the literature on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome--SIDS--that had been published in a prestigious medical journal back in 1972. Written by a prominent researcher at a Syracuse medical center, the article described a family in which five children had died suddenly without explanation. The D.A. was convinced that something about this account was very wrong. An intensive quest by a team of investigato

Author

Richard Firstman and Jamie Talan

Publisher

Bantam USA, TBS The Book Service Ltd [distributor],. Booksite Afrika [distributor],. Random House (Pty) Ltd South Africa [distributor],. Random House Australia [distributor],. Random House New Zealand Ltd [distributor],. Random House USA [distributor

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780553100136

Subjects

True Crime, Memoir, Family & Relationships

Rating

4.14 / 5 (163 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14