Submerged: How a Cold Case Condemned an Innocent Man to Hide a Family's Darkest Secret by Levin, Hillel

Submerged: How a Cold Case Condemned an Innocent Man to Hide a Family's Darkest Secret (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781613165744)

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Submerged: How a Cold Case Condemned an Innocent Man to Hide a Family's Darkest Secret by Levin, Hillel

Submerged: How a Cold Case Condemned an Innocent Man to Hide a Family's Darkest Secret

$26.95
Submerged: How a Cold Case Condemned an Innocent Man to Hide a Family's Darkest Secret by Levin, Hillel

Submerged: How a Cold Case Condemned an Innocent Man to Hide a Family's Darkest Secret

$26.95
Format: Hardcover
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This bombshell investigation from the co-author of Black Bird reveals a cold case gone wrong that cleared a murderer and imprisoned an innocent man.

In March 1993, sixteen-year-old Rayna Rison was abducted outside the La Porte, Indiana, veterinary hospital where she worked. A month later, her body was found submerged under tree limbs in a rural pond. Police targeted her brother-in-law, Ray McCarty, as the prime suspect. Although a grand jury indicted him for the murder in 1998, prosecutors later dropped the charges. Then in 2013, county officers arrested Jason Tibbs, Rayna's middle-school boyfriend, convicted him, and sentenced him to forty years in prison.

After a two-year investigation, drawing on dozens of interviews and more than a thousand pages of police files, author Hillel Levin completes the case against McCarty, following clues and leads that detectives overlooked. In the process, he reveals startling new information about the killer's murder weapon and accomplices, and uncovers the politics and misconduct that enabled the prosecutor to convict Jason Tibbs. Although cold cases are celebrated in popular culture, Jason's trial shows the perils they can pose for innocent defendants.

At the heart of Submerged is the tragic story of Rayna Rison, an exceptional young woman with a promising future whose family and justice system failed to keep her from harm. Ironically, the person now held accountable for her murder is the friend she most saw as her protector.

Author: Hillel Levin
ISBN-10: 1613165749
ISBN-13: 9781613165744
Publisher: Crime Ink
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2024
Pages: 502
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.40d

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Booklist 10/15/2024 pg. 4
By Hillel Levin
By Hillel Levin
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Hillel Levin's reporting has appeared in The Nation, Playboy, New York magazine, Monthly Detroit magazine, Metropolitan Detroit magazine, and Chicago magazine. He was executive editor of Metropolitan Detroit and editor of Chicago magazine. In 1984, he wrote Grand Delusions: The Cosmic Career of John De Lorea (Viking). In 2004, he wrote When Corruption Was King (Carroll and Graf) with Robert Cooley about Cooley's central role in the FBI investigation of mob influence on Chicago's courts and political system. In 2007, for Playboy, he wrote Boosting the Big Tuna, about the burglars who broke into the home of Tony Accordo, the long-time leader of Chicago's mob. His 2010 book, In With the Devil, which he wrote with James Keene, was about Keene's undercover mission to crack a serial killer in a federal prison and was the basis for the Apple TV+ series Black Bird.

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