Little Shoes, Pamela Everett
Little Shoes, Pamela Everett
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Little Shoes
The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret

Author: Pamela Everett

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Unabridged: 6 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/29/2018

Synopsis

In the summer of 1937, with the Depression deep and World War II looming, a California crime stunned an already grim nation. Three little girls were lured away from a neighborhood park to unthinkable deaths. After a frantic week-long manhunt for the killer, a suspect emerged, and his sensational trial captivated audiences from coast to coast. Justice was swift, and the condemned man was buried away with the horrifying story.

But decades later, Pamela Everett, a lawyer and former journalist, starts digging, following up a cryptic comment her father once made about losing two of his sisters. Her journey is uniquely personal as she uncovers her family's secret history, but the investigation quickly takes unexpected turns into her professional wheelhouse.

Everett unearths a truly historic legal case that included one of the earliest criminal profiles in the United States, the genesis of modern sex offender laws, and the last man sentenced to hang in California. Digging deeper and drawing on her experience with wrongful convictions, Everett then raises detailed and haunting questions about whether the authorities got the right man. Having revived the case to its rightful place in history, she leaves us with enduring concerns about the death penalty then and now.

A journey chronicled through the mind of a lawyer and from the heart of a daughter, Little Shoes is both a captivating true crime story and a profoundly personal account of one family's struggle to cope with tragedy through the generations.

About Pamela Everett

Pamela Everett is a former broadcast journalist who later earned her law degree at the University of San Diego, where she wrote for the San Diego Law Review. She is on the Criminal Justice faculty at the University of Nevada and a volunteer attorney with the California Innocence Project. She lives in Reno, Nevada.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fishface on August 09, 2018

An Enlightening Read About A Horrifying Story This is a short read, but satisfying -- as satisfying as a horrific story like this probably can be. If you thought not much could be worse than a triple child murder, wait until you see what the author does with what I thought all this time was a clear,......more

Goodreads review by Nat on March 10, 2021

3.5 stars~ ☆☆YouTube | Tumblr | Instagram ☆☆ This Was Kinda Painful -- February Wrap Up || 10 books! What I enjoyed about this book most was the way Pamela Everrett managed to weave personal anecdotes and ties to memories she had of these people into the awful story she was learning. I think that......more

Goodreads review by Sandy on June 15, 2021

I'm really torn trying to rate this. When I came across this book I was very excited, it should have been my jam, seriously. As an avid genealogist, history lover, and true crime enthusiast, the premise behind the book - family history, uncovered secrets, murder - sounded like basically all of my in......more

Goodreads review by Lorie on September 09, 2018

First, let me just say that having Reno author Pamela Everett, an attorney with the Innocence Project and a UNR professor of criminal justice, meet with our book club was a wonderful privilege. She told us about the very personal journey that ended with the publication of Little Shoes. In 1937–long b......more

Goodreads review by Emilio on April 16, 2019

A statement often repeated from death-penalty proponents is that while the criminal justice system has its faults there has never been an execution of an innocent man. Considering that over 150 people on death row have subsequently been exonerated, it's a little hard to give any credence to the idea......more

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