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Description of  Presumption of Guilt (Innocent Prisoners Project)

Molly Singer was convicted 12 years earlier as a 17 year old of murdering her parents because she woke up one morning and found them murdered in their beds and called 911. Because the house was locked when the police arrived and because Molly was in shock and very calm by the time they arrived they assumed she had done it herself. No physical evidence or fingerprints were found that linked her to the murder and no murder weapons were found. The police after hours of questioning fed her false information and convinced a confused teenager that she must have done it based on what they said and they wrote a confession for her and had her sign it and record it. She was convicted and her unborn baby was born in jail. New information has come to light, enough for Dani Trumball, an attorney with a non-profit organization that helps free inmates who have been falsely convicted, to consider taking her case. I learned a great deal about false confessions, false convictions and a rare childhood disorder called Williams syndrome. All of that was fascinating but the ins and outs of this case and the unpeeling of the onion of the story was what held my attention fast as I rarely put the book down until it was finished. There were some very interesting characters in the book and the author made me feel every one of those characters' fears, desires, regrets etc. This was a very well written book and I look forward to finding more of this author's works.