The Man No One Believed (eBook)

The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders

Joshua Sharpe (Autor)

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2025
272 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-02072-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Only very rarely does one of our storiesone of uschange the course of human events. Joshua Sharpe asked the right questions, refusing easy answers. Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and best-selling authorThe riveting story of a 1985 double murder, a long-overdue investigation, and the fight to exonerate an innocent man.In 1985, a white man walked into a South Georgia church and brutally murdered Harold and Thelma Swain, two pillars of the areas Black community. The killer vanished into the night. For fifteen years, the case remained unsolved. Then authorities zeroed in on Dennis Perry, a carpenter who grew up nearby. Convicted with devastatingly flawed evidence, Perry received a double life sentence.When award-winning journalist and South Georgia native Joshua Sharpe retraces the case, he discovers a winding path of corruption, devastating missteps, and secrets. Driven by the pursuit of the truth, Sharpes investigation takes him through dusty courthouse archives, down winding dirt roads, and into intense interviews. But he keeps knocking on doorseven after theyre slammed in his face. Sharpe uncovers explosive evidence that helps prove Dennis Perrys innocence. And he confronts a long-ignored suspect: an alleged white supremacist who had bragged about committing the murders.But the fight for the truth is not easily won. When a key figure in the investigation turns up dead under suspicious circumstances, Sharpes sources and editors insist that he could be in danger. And even as evidence mounts of Perrys innocence, local officials work to keep him in prisonuntil Sharpes reporting forces the state to launch a new investigationthirty-five years after the Swains murders. Driven by Sharpes tireless reporting, The Man No One Believed tells the unbelievable story of one of the most confounding cases in Georgia history, the extraordinary fight to free an innocent man, and how state officials worked against the odds to deliver justice for the Swains after all.Both a riveting true crime story and a searing indictment of American injustice, The Man No One Believed is a gripping work of literary journalisma moving examination of how we reckon with the sins of our past.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.8.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
• Schlagworte: 1980s • Cold Case • Corruption • criminal justice • detective • Georgia • Innocence • innocence project • investigative journalism • Justice system • Murder • Mystery • Prison • Racism • South • southern history • Suspect • white supremacy
• ISBN-10: 1-324-02072-5 / 1324020725
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-02072-1 / 9781324020721