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Readers of Just Mercy and A Knock at Midnight should pick this excellent true crime memoir up for the change in view point from lawyer trying to fight the justice system to wrongfully convicted inmate trying to fight the justice system. Ronald Kitchen was a low-level drug dealer in Chicago in the ’80s when he was arrested for murder. He was not the person who’d committed the crime they were accusing him of but after being tortured he signed the confession statement the police had written hoping it would stop the cruelty. From there the justice system continued to fail him on every level and he ended up on death row. This is his story from childhood, wrongful arrest and conviction, life on death row, studying law in prison, and his appeals.

(TW torture/ suicide)

This is a true crime memoir that focuses on the missing persons case of Jacob Gray — who disappeared from Olympic National Park — and his father Randy who dedicated his life to finding him. We also hear about a lot of other missing persons cases along with the systems that exist, and don’t, for finding a missing person. We also go into the world of conspiracy theorists who believe things like Big Foot is responsible, and the heartbreaking grief of not having any answers to what happened to a loved one. I found this to be as much about the cases, missing people, their loved ones, and missing people trackers as it is about the unknown and what it does to us.

(TW suicide but I didn’t keep detailed notes because it was all mentioned in the same way the news does throughout the book when talking about cases and people. There wasn’t any sexual assault though.)