Murder On A Lonely Road
A Beauty Queen, a Privileged Killer, and a Twenty-Five Year Search for Justice
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
9 November 2012
Summary
A brutal murder that shocked residents of Missouri - and a killer it took 25 years to bring to justice…
On June 17, 1985, twenty-year-old beauty pageant winner Jackie Johns’s car was found abandoned, the interior drenched in blood. Four days later, her bludgeoned, nude body was found floating in a nearby lake. Sheriff Dwight McNiel vowed to catch Jackie’s killer, however long it took. His prime suspect - local rich kid Gerald Carnahan. But despite suspicions, the evidence never manage…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780425250341 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0425250342 |
| Author: | George Pawlaczyk, Beth Hundsdorfer |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 9 November 2012 |
| Weight: | 184g |
| Dimensions: | 191mm x 105mm |
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About The Author
George Pawlaczyk
George Pawlaczyk and Beth Hundsdorfer are investigative reporters for the Belleville (Ill.) News-Democrat in Southern Illinois near St. Louis. They have worked as a team for more than a decade during which they uncovered shoddy investigations by a state agency that led to the death of more than 50 children and exposed the practice of holding mentally ill prisoners in solitary confinement continuously for more than a decade in the state’s supermax Tamms Correctional Center. They won the Robert F. Kennedy Award in 2007 for their series “Lethal Lapses” about the faulty child protection system and in 2009 won a prestigious George Polk Award for their series on solitary confinement entitled “Trapped In Tamms.”
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