| Justice Delayed: The Catherine Janet Walsh Story Contributor(s): Hallock, Steve (Author) |
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ISBN: 0996459200 ISBN-13: 9780996459204 Publisher: Artists' Orchard, LLC OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5" W x 7" (0.82 lbs) 432 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An estranged husband who was a former high-school sweetheart. A suitor spurned after a night of boozing and dancing. A secret early-morning lover. These were three of the five viable suspects police were investigating after 23-year-old Catherine Janet Walsh's parents discovered her half-nude body in her bed that Saturday morning of a sultry Labor Day weekend in 1979. But there was not enough evidence to convict any of them. Thirty-two years later, thanks to the emerging science of DNA forensics, Detective Andrew Gall, who was the initial responding officer to the murder scene, had a prime suspect in this cold case. Sperm left on the stored evidence -- a nightgown, a robe tie to bind the young secretary's hands, and a bandana used to strangle her -- pointed to one of the five men who had motive and/or opportunity to kill her. But this true saga of liquor- and sex-tinged murder that disrupted a small riverside blue-collar town where crime was rare and everybody was related or friends, was only beginning. Now came the trial - no prosecutorial slam dunk, despite the scientific and forensic evidence - as the story of the murder was told in a courtroom drama involving internationally renowned forensics and DNA experts, conflicting character testimony, questionable alibis, and compromised memories of one long night and early morning of dancing, drinking, partying, and death. |