Media Meddlers: The Real Truth about the Murder Case Against Rubin Hurricane Carter

Media Meddlers: The Real Truth about the Murder Case Against Rubin Hurricane Carter
Author: James V. Desimone
Publisher: Hybrid Global Publishing
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2019-04-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781948181440

A celebrity athlete is arrested for a brutal triple murder at the Lafayette Grill in Paterson, New Jersey in 1966. The facts of the case have been obscured by decades of legal wrangling, accusations of racism and frame-ups, a Bob Dylan ballad, and a Hollywood movie. Does anyone know the truth? In this never-before-published account, Vincent DeSimone Jr., the lead detective on the Lafayette Grill murder case, lays out the investigation into a shocking crime, explains why he became convinced that "Hurricane" Carter was the killer, and recalls how he and his fellow officers were vilified as corrupt, racist cops. The true, definitive, and inside account of the Lafayette Grill murders.

Media Meddlers: The Real Truth About the Murder Case Against Rubin “Hurricane” Carter

Media Meddlers: The Real Truth About the Murder Case Against Rubin “Hurricane” Carter
Author: LeAD DetectiVe Vincent J. De Simone Jr.
Publisher: Hybrid Global Publishing
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2021-05-21
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1948181452

Media Meddlers is a provocative book that not only addresses one of the nation’s most controversial murder cases, but also indicts a sacred institution— the media—for the way some of its members used the power of the First Amendment to turn justice into injustice. Seldom has there been written a book that so clearly exposes the abuse of freedom of speech. Early on the morning of June 17, 1966, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, then at the height of his career as a professional middleweight boxer, and his friend, young John Artis, walked into the Lafayette Grill in Paterson, New Jersey, and blasted away with a shotgun and .32 caliber pistol, killing two men and a woman. Another man, shot through the head, miraculously survived.

Murder, Myth, & Marketing

Murder, Myth, & Marketing
Author: David R. Axelson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781978217607

Murder, Myth, & Marketing is the exhaustively-researched story of how convicted triple murderer and ex-boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter convinced the New York Times, Madison Avenue, Bob Dylan, and Hollywood that he was an innocent man wrongfully convicted.

Justice on the Ropes

Justice on the Ropes
Author: Jeff Beach
Publisher:
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2018-05-11
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9781478795131

Rubin Carter and John Artis Had Been Knocked Down... But what prosecutors who built a highly questionable case against the famous middleweight boxer and his teenage acquaintance in the 1966 Lafayette Bar and Grille triple murders in Paterson, New Jersey, did not count on was a young investigator from the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender who was willing to devote his free time, talent and energies to picking apart the case built on "eyewitnesses" who likely saw nothing they had claimed to see and racial prejudice against two African-American defendants. As Fred W. Hogan tracked down the "eyewitnesses" and got them to admit their statements to police were lies, the world began to pay attention to the case, with Bob Dylan writing a famous song about "The Hurricane" and boxing luminaries like Muhammad Ali, "Sugar Ray" Robinson and others holding fund-raisers and speaking out against the injustice done to Carter and Artis. Ultimately, they would be freed, and Carter, Artis and Hogan would make exposing other wrongful convictions a life's work and passion.

Hurricane

Hurricane
Author: James S. Hirsch
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The inspiration for an upcoming film starring Denzel Washington, "Hurricane" recounts the miraculous journey of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter--a boxer wrongly jailed for three murders--from fierce despair to freedom and enlightenment.

Freeing David McCallum

Freeing David McCallum
Author: Ken Klonsky
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN: 9781613737934

For ten years before Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's death, he and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky had been working to help free another wrongfully convicted man, David McCallum. McCallum was eventually exonerated and freed after serving twenty-nine years in prison. This is the story of how Carter and Klonsky, along with a group of committed friends and professionals, managed to secure McCallum's release. It details their many struggles, from founding an innocence project to take on the case, finding lawyers willing to work pro bono, and hiring a private detective to sift through old evidence and locate original witnesses, to the most difficult part: convincing members of a deeply flawed criminal justice system to reopen a case that would expose their own mistakes when all they wanted to do was ignore the conflicting evidence. A new district attorney willing to reexamine the case, a documentary film, and an op-ed piece in which Carter, on his deathbed, made a plea for McCallum's release finally turned the tide of justice.

Predator King

Predator King
Author: Melissa Cronin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2020-04-10
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1510762337

Jeffrey Epstein. Harvey Weinstein. Bill Cosby. Peter Nygard. With this book, the infamous hall of fame for billionaire sex predators has inducted another member. Peter Nygard is the most famous and successful fashion designer that you might never have heard of. A Finnish-Canadian crowned the “polyester phenom” by Forbes, he built a nearly billion-dollar fortune shilling pants and blouses for the thirty-five and older set. Dillard’s, Sears, and Wal-Mart all called him one of their top providers, and he boasted a massive flagship store in the heart of Times Square. As he was building his fashion empire, however, Nygard also was allegedly building a dark international web of sexual predation and corruption―one that countless girls and women around the world claim destroyed their lives. Like in so many similar cases, Nygard stands accused of using his power, influence, and the trappings of success to ensnare and victimize vulnerable young women. Dangling the promise of a glamorous international modeling career before them, his victims—some allegedly as young as fourteen—claim that Nygard lured them to his California beach house, Canadian bachelor pad, and massive Caribbean estate, only to subject them to horrors they never could have imagined. Those are just some of the terrible acts that Nygard allegedly perpetrated behind the closed doors of his dens of evil. Meanwhile, Nygard’s invited guests—such as Britain’s Prince Andrew, former President George H. W. Bush, Robert De Niro, and Sylvester Stallone—were supposedly none the wiser. Predator King shines a spotlight on how money, power, and political clout can come together to create a monster, one that leaves shattered lives in its wake once unleashed upon the world. How can we find such predators, as they prowl in the darkness? And more importantly, how can a man like Peter Nygard be stopped?

They Stole Him Out of Jail

They Stole Him Out of Jail
Author: William B. Gravely
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1611179386

“Reminds readers that the history of lynching and racial violence in the United States is not a closed book, but an ever-relevant story.” —Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books Before daybreak on February 17, 1947, twenty-four-year-old Willie Earle, an African American man arrested for the murder of a Greenville, South Carolina, taxi driver named T. W. Brown, was abducted from his jail cell by a mob, and then beaten, stabbed, and shot to death. An investigation produced thirty-one suspects, most of them cabbies seeking revenge for one of their own. The police and FBI obtained twenty-six confessions, but, after a nine-day trial in May that attracted national press attention, the defendants were acquitted by an all-white jury. In They Stole Him Out of Jail, William B. Gravely presents the most comprehensive account of the Earle lynching ever written, exploring it from background to aftermath and from multiple perspectives. Among his sources are contemporary press accounts (there was no trial transcript), extensive interviews and archival documents, and the “Greenville notebook” kept by Rebecca West, the well-known British writer who covered the trial for the New Yorker magazine. Gravely meticulously recreates the case’s details, analyzing the flaws in the investigation and prosecution that led in part to the acquittals. Vivid portraits emerge of key figures in the story, including both Earle and Brown, Solicitor Robert T. Ashmore, Governor Strom Thurmond, and West, whose article “Opera in Greenville” is masterful journalism but marred by errors owing to her short stay in the area. Gravely also probes problems with memory that resulted in varying interpretations of Willie Earle’s character and conflicting narratives about the lynching itself.