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Manso, Peter.
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Worthington, Christa, 1955-
McCowen, Chris.
Fashion editors -- Crimes against -- Massachusetts.
Crimes of passion -- Massachusetts -- Truro (Town) -- Case studies.
Murder -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- Case studies.
Trials (Murder) -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- Case studies.
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
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Manso, Peter.
Worthington, Christa, 1955-
McCowen, Chris.
Fashion editors -- Crimes against -- Massachusetts.
Crimes of passion -- Massachusetts -- Truro (Town) -- Case studies.
Murder -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- Case studies.
Trials (Murder) -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- Case studies.
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
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Reasonable doubt : the fashion writer, Cape Cod, and the trial of Chris McCowen / Peter Manso.
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Manso, Peter.
Atria Books, c2011.
Call #:
364
.1523
M2892r
Subjects
Worthington, Christa, 1955-
McCowen, Chris.
Fashion editors -- Crimes against -- Massachusetts.
Crimes of passion -- Massachusetts -- Truro (Town) -- Case studies.
Murder -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- Case studies.
Trials (Murder) -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- Case studies.
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9780743296663 (hc.)
0743296664 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Atria Books harbk. ed.
Description:
435 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
In January 2002, forty-six-year-old Christa Worthington was found stabbed to death in the kitchen of her Truro, Cape Cod, cottage, her curly-haired toddler clutching her body. A former Vassar girl and scion of a prominent local family, Christa had abandoned a glamorous career as a fashion writer for a simpler life on the Cape, where she had an affair with a married fisherman and had his child. After her murder, evidence pointed toward several local men who had known her. Yet in 2005, investigators arrested Christopher McCowen, a thirty-four-year-old African-American garbage collector with an IQ of 76. The sole evidence against McCowen was a DNA match showing that he{u2019}d had sex with Worthington prior to her murder. There were no fingerprints, no witnesses, and although the state medical examiner acknowledged there was no evidence of rape, the defendant was convicted after a five-week trial replete with conflicting testimony, accusations of crime scene contamination, and police misconduct{u2014}and was condemned to three lifetime sentences in prison with no parole. Rarely has a homicide trial been refracted so clearly through the prism of those who engineered it, and bestselling author and biographer Peter Manso is determined to rectify what has become one of the most grossly unjust verdicts in modern trial history. In his riveting new book he bares the anatomy of a horrific murder{u2014}as well as the political corruption and racism that appear to be endemic in one of America{u2019}s most privileged playgrounds, Cape Cod.
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True crime.
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