Author: ellenmcgarrahan

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • In this “spellbinding memoir” (The Washington Post), a private investigator revisits the case that has haunted her for decades and sets out on a deeply personal quest to sort truth from lies.“Beautifully written.”—Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Blood in the WaterIn 1990, Ellen McGarrahan was a young reporter for the Miami Herald… 1990, Ellen McGarrahan was a young reporter for the Miami Herald when she covered the execution of Jesse Tafero, a man convicted of murdering two police officers. When it later emerged that Tafero may have been innocent, McGarrahan was appalled by her unquestioning acceptance of the state’s version of…