Stolen Years, Reuven Fenton
Stolen Years, Reuven Fenton
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Stolen Years
Stories of the Wrongfully Imprisoned

Author: Reuven Fenton

Narrator: Bahni Turpin, Will Damron, JD Jackson

Unabridged: 8 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/10/2015

Synopsis

There is a grisly murder in your neighborhood. You stand outside with your neighbors and watch, or maybe you peek out your curtains. Hours pass, then days, maybe years. Then one day there is a knock at your door and the police take you in for questioning. Do you remember what happened? Do you have an alibi? Can you take countless hours of interrogation without breaking?

This can happen to you. And it happens to more people than you think.

Stories from The Fixer to The Shawshank Redemption have for decades catered to audiences' grim fascination with wrongful imprisonment—one's worst nightmare come to life. In Stolen Years, the stories are true. The ten former inmates profiled here fended off the blackest despair so they could keep fighting for freedom. Once out, they faced a new struggle: getting back to living after losing so many years behind bars.

Intense, startling, and utterly compelling, Stolen Years will take listeners into the lives of the jailed innocent.

About Reuven Fenton

Reuven Fenton has been covering murder and scandal for the New York Post since 2007. He has earned national recognition for his exclusive reporting on national stories such as the resignations of political powerhouses Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner, Hurricane Sandy and the devastation it brought on New York and New Jersey, the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and the Boston Marathon bombing. Reuven was inspired to write Stolen Years after covering an unforgettable court hearing in 2013 in which a Brooklyn judge freed David Ranta, a man who'd been wrongfully convicted twenty-two years earlier of murdering a rabbi. The sensational story sparked an investigation into misconduct by both the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office and the lead detective in the case. Reuven is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and lives in New York City with his wife and two sons. Follow him on Twitter at @reuvenfen.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ethan

Less than a year away from the next United States Presidential Election, Americans are talking about the issues that matter to them and the things that they hope the presidential candidates will speak about. One of those topics is the reform of the criminal justice system. Social movements such as B......more

Goodreads review by Kari

Stolen Years: Stories of the Wrongfully Accused was a step outside of my usual type of reading genre. I used to read a lot of true crime anthologies, but not in a long time. This book is a twist on that genre. They are stories of crimes, but the people convicted and imprisoned were actually innocent......more

Goodreads review by Diane

One of the few areas of agreement in a contentious Congress is the need to reform the criminal justice system. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree that many people are incarcerated for far too long for minor offenses, such as marijuana possession, and that this is an issue that can be fixed. T......more

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