Sworn to Silence, Jim Tracy
Sworn to Silence, Jim Tracy
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Sworn to Silence
The Truth Behind Robert Garrow and the Missing Bodies' Case

Author: Jim Tracy

Narrator: Chris Sorensen

Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/06/2021

Synopsis

Why would two small-time American public defenders search, locate, and photograph the lifeless bodies of young women their client raped, murdered, and hid, and then leave the bodies where they found them and not tell authorities? And how did they have the audacity to meet with one of the fathers of a missing girl and tell him they knew nothing about her fate or whereabouts?

When the nation eventually learned of the lawyers' actions, they were horrified and outraged that two officers of the law could act in a way that seemed beyond any concept of humanity.

In Sworn to Silence, award winning reporter Jim Tracy tells the lawyers' story within the framework of a true crime narrative. He uncovers a criminal who police and the public never learned was an American serial killer. Tracy does so while taking the listener back briefly to American life in the early 1970s.

About Jim Tracy

Jim Tracy has won multiple national and state writing awards, including first place in the prestigious Associated Press Sports Editor contest. Around this time, he spent ten years at The Post-Star, a Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper in Glens Falls, New York.

He graduated from the State University of New York. Prior to a successful career in journalism. Tracy was a former aide to New York State Senator Norman Levy (R-Nassau County). He was born, raised, and still resides in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, with his wife, Angela, and teenaged daughters Sam and Shay.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Liz on April 08, 2021

I hadn't heard about this case and being into True crime I decided to give it a go when it popped up in my Amazon recommendations. It was fascinating in that way that true crime is, Jim Tracy does an excellent job of laying out the events that lead to the capture of Garrow and the ethical legal issue......more

Goodreads review by Alicia on August 02, 2021

Read in one day, this book is a phenomenal true crime and yes, I'm saying it in part because I live in upstate New York, but also Tracy's story moves briskly through the dark and disturbing with twists and turns and a heck of a ethical conundrum to boot. Garrow is a fascinating character to begin wi......more

Goodreads review by Joanne on June 19, 2021

A horrific tale well told. Insights into the making of a serial killer - Robert Garrow - and the attorneys who abided by client confidentiality to keep secret the locations of two of the bodies; a heart wrenching situation for parents who couldn't bury their young daughters. The case of client confi......more

Goodreads review by Chad on July 03, 2021

As a native to the Adirondack Mountains, this story has enthralled me since I was a kid. I was born in ‘85 so I missed living through the summer of ‘73, however I have a lot of friends and family that endured the frightening days of the Robert Garrow manhunt. When I got wind that Jim Tracy, who is a......more

Goodreads review by Edward on May 03, 2022

True Crime Research and Storytelling At It's Finest New York State is so vast that despite living on Long Island my whole life I had never heard of this case until 2021. I've listened to some good true crime podcast on the case but they only scratched the surface. This book is the grand slam of the cas......more

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