I had a hard time with this book, as it was hard to fathom that this much incompetence is tolerated in both law enforcement and the judiciary. And now we have it at the highest level.
This book made me so angry! True crime stories where law enforcement not only got it wrong, but took extraordinary measures to hide their ineptitude, biases, and ignorance. Innocent people in prison most of their lives, some being executed from death row. I like to believe the justice system gets a majority of cases right, but I grieve for those innocents who are failed by it.
I got half way through the book and couldn’t take the way the police and the authorities treated suspects and made up heinous decisions on their own based on no facts. Just so they could prove that they were correct in their decisions but couldn’t back them up. Nobody should be treated like that.
Honestly shocked I liked this as much as I did, but it’s this simple-yet-effective, gut-punch style of true crime that reminds me that sometimes non-fiction is also an option.