Crime & Justice · nonfiction
The Name Beyond the Confession
When investigators searched Chattanooga for the woman Samuel Little remembered, the files turned up nothing. Across the state line in Georgia, an old case and a face reconstructed from a skull would lead them to a family who could help give her back her name.
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- Genre
- Crime & Justice
- Audience
- Adult readers
- Chapters
- 15
- Fiction status
- nonfiction
- Editorial responsibility
- My Life Story Editorial
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Courtroom TruthsChapters
- 01The Empty Name
- 02Three Matches
- 03Across the Files
- 04A Sentence Is Not an Answer
- 05The Texas Thread
- 06The City Without a Match
- 07The Other Side of the Line
- 08One Case in Court
- 09The Interview in Texas
- 10A Face He Did Not Draw
- 11Recognition Is Not Proof
- 12The Count and the Person
- 13Patricia Parker
- 14When the Interviews Ended
- 15A Name, Not a Total
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