About this item
This true crime book is like a real-life thriller, and it has historic import because it paved the way for the Supreme Court’s ruling that led to Miranda rights. ECHOES OF MY SOUL tells all about the Career Girls Murders. Two young women brutally murder in NYC, in August 1963. A young George Whitmore, Jr. who was wrongfully convicted, and how the D.A.’s office got to the bottom of the case to serve justice. ECHOES OF MY SOUL is a classic true crime story that will resonate with readers. This case is considered the key reason for the Supreme Court’s enactment of Miranda, and it was a major factor in the abolition of the death penalty in New York. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Robert K. Tanenbaum is one of the country's most successful trial lawyers -- he has never lost a felony case. He has been Bureau Chief of the New York Criminal Courts, ran the Homicide Bureau for the New York District Attorney's Office, and served as Deputy Chief Counsel to the Congressional Committee investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He has taught Advanced Criminal Procedure at his alma mater, the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. His previous works include the novels Fatal Conceit, Bad Faith, Tragic, Outrage, Betrayed, Capture, and Escape; and three true-crime books, Echoes of My Soul, The Piano Teacher: The True Story of a Psychotic Killer, and Badge of the Assassin.
