{"product_id":"railroaded-phillip-crawford-jr-9781718940383","title":"Railroaded: The Homophobic Prosecution of Brandon Woodruff for His Parents' Murders","description":"Was a Texas youth convicted for a horrific crime because he's gay? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRailroaded: The Homophobic Prosecution of Brandon Woodruff for His Parents' Murders\u003c\/i\u003e author Phillip Crawford Jr. details how anti-gay bias rather than relevant evidence drove the case against a young defendant. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn October 2005 nineteen-year-old Brandon Dale Woodruff was charged with murdering his parents in a rural northeast Texas town in the heart of the Bible belt. Dennis and Norma Woodruff had been sitting together on a sofa before the television set on a Sunday evening in their double wide manufactured home in Royse City, and both were shot and stabbed multiple times in their faces. It was a bloodbath. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere was no direct evidence tying the couple's son to the gruesome crime to warrant his arrest - no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, no bloody prints - but investigators were convinced the teen boy was living a double life who killed when his two worlds supposedly collided. Brandon was a horse wrangler and attending Abilene Christian University, and he also was a porn actor and dancing at Dallas gay clubs. There was no double life; just a boy coming out. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt trial in March 2009 the prosecution took a coming out story and turned Brandon into The Talented Mr. Ripley. Prosecutors claimed because the boy still was in the process of coming out that he was a duplicitous character which constituted evidence of guilt. The prosecution also entailed investigative blunders, dirty tricks and questionable evidence which further deprived Brandon Woodruff of a fair trial. Eight jurors believed \"that being homosexual or gay is morally wrong,\" and the jury convicted him after deliberating only five hours. Brandon Woodruff was railroaded with a homophobic narrative, and is serving a life sentence without parole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Phillip Jr. Crawford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1718940386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781718940383\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/11\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.35d","brand":"Phillip Jr. Crawford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44068914299135,"sku":"9781718940383","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5c328cbf-2368-4b55-b32b-be312d85cac3.jpg?v=1685421731","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/railroaded-phillip-crawford-jr-9781718940383","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}