The True Story of How a Series of Lies Sent an Innocent Man to Prison
A condensed version of this post was used in Aggravated. If you haven’t read Part 1 of this yet, you probably should do that first. It’s at this link. Line by Line Buried in the text of the note are several clues which might indicate when the note was written, along with some other information. …
A condensed version of this post was used in Aggravated, where I covered the most important points in a note that Rhonda Bresnick produced for Hanna at the request of Hanna’s mother, Darla. I have always had suspicions about the note, and how it was created. Rhonda claimed she wrote it soon after a 2003 …
Parts of this were used in Aggravated. As I worked on the book, I found myself making a number of grammatical and stylistic decisions that varied from standard acceptable usage. I’ve detailed them here in case you found them to be cumbersome when reading the book and wanted to know why I used them that …
In writing this book, I did a number of things stylistically that I probably wouldn’t do in a novel or a short story. For example, I used ellipses in an abnormal way, violated standard guidelines for numbering, and collapsed the dialogue from the trial’s transcripts. Part of the explanation below is taken directly from the …