The Central Park Five : a chronicle of a city wilding / Sarah Burns.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 240 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780307266149
- 0307266141
- 364.15/3209227471 22
- HV6568.N5 B87 2011
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single unit book | HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 2nd floor – Closed Collection | E (Executive) | E:HV6568.N5 B87 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2023-7045 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An in-depth account of one of New York City's most notorious crimes. On April 20, 1989, the body of a woman is discovered in Central Park, her skull badly smashed. Within days, five black and Latino teenagers confess to her rape and beating. The ensuing media frenzy and hysterical public reaction is extraordinary. The young men are tried and convicted as adults, despite the fact that the teens quickly recant their inconsistent and inaccurate confessions and that no tests or eyewitness accounts tie any of them to the victim. They serve their complete sentences before another man, serial rapist Matias Reyes, confesses to the crime and is connected to it by DNA testing. Intertwining the stories of these five young men, the police officers, the district attorneys, the victim, and Reyes, author Burns unravels the forces that made both the crime and its prosecution possible.--From publisher description.
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