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Catch The Devil: A True Story Of Murder, Deception, And Injustice On The Gulf Coast
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The Riveting, True Story Of An Audacious Con Man Weaponized By The Justice SystemWho Helped Send An Innocent Man To Death RowIncendiary, Emotionally Devastating. [This] Is A Feat Of Dogged Reporting, Bravura Storytelling, And ClearEyed Moral Conscience.Patrick Radden Keefe, Author Of Say Nothing And London Fallingfor More Than Three Decades, Paul Skalnik Roamed The Gulf Coast Lying About Who He Was. He Passed Himself Off As A Fighter Pilot, A HighRolling Oilman, A Criminal Defense Attorney, An Undercover Agent, And A Terminal Cancer Patient. In These Guises He Married Nine WomenSome At The Same Time.When Skalnik Got Caught, As He Invariably Did, He Would Run A Different Con. Locked Up With Other Men Awaiting Trial, He Claimed They Confessed Their Crimes To Him. Then He Peddled Those Stories To Prosecutors. In Pinellas County, Florida, He Became A Frequent Witness For The State, Thinking Nothing Of Exaggerating MenS Wrongdoing Or Implicating The Innocent To Help Prosecutors Win Convictions. In Return, The State Rewarded Him With His Freedom, Fueling His Growing Sense Of Invincibility. Soon He Was Not Just Committing Fraud; He Was Preying On Girls In Their Teens Or Barely Into Adolescence.In 1985, Jim Dailey, A DownOnHisLuck Vietnam Veteran, Was Implicated In The Murder Of A FourteenYearOld Girl And Landed In The Pinellas County Jail With Skalnik. No Forensic Evidence Or Motive Linked Dailey To The Killing, But SkalnikS Account Of His Confession Helped Put Dailey On Death Row. Skalnik, Meanwhile, Walked Free. More Than Three Decades Later, After Another Man Took Responsibility For The Killing, Pamela Colloff, Reporting For The New York Times Magazine And Propublica, Visited Skalnik And Asked Him If He Would Recant His Testimony. He Refused.By Then, Skalnik Had Caused Untold Damage: To The Women And Girls He Exploited, To The Dozens Of Men He Helped Imprison, And To Jim Dailey, Who Went On To Receive An Execution Date. In This Mesmerizing Debut, Pamela Colloff Spins A Dark Tale Of A Remorseless And Brilliant Liar Made Lethal By A System More Concerned With Winning Convictions Than Finding The Truth.
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