The Edge of Innocence: The Trial of Casper Bennett (Unabridged) The Edge of Innocence: The Trial of Casper Bennett (Unabridged)

The Edge of Innocence: The Trial of Casper Bennett (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

Named 2018 Book of the Year by International Rubery Book Award

The Edge of Innocence is a work of narrative nonfiction based on the 1964 murder trial of Casper Bennett, a man accused of drowning his wife in a bathtub of scalding water in Lorain, Ohio. Bennett's sensational trial pitted an aggressive, mercurial county prosecutor against the author's father, a civil trial attorney who had never before defended anyone for murder. 

The book not only recreates the tension and excitement of this courtroom battle, but also highlights the uncertain edge that often divides guilt from innocence. The author was 10 years old when he answered the phone late at night when Bennett called his father from jail, seeking his legal representation. 

Forty years later and long after his father's death, the author found the Bennett file in the bottom of his mother's closet. From the moment he began reading the papers, the long-forgotten drama cast a spell on him. As he uncovered more and more of the facts, the story he had known as a child disappeared, replaced by one far different. 

The Edge of Innocence takes the listener through the criminal justice system and ultimately to the trial where the listener, like a juror, must sift through competing claims and conflicting evidence. Full of twists and turns and colorful characters, The Edge of Innocence is all the more entertaining because it tells a true story.

GENRE
History
NARRATOR
SW
Steve Wannall
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
12:04
hr min
RELEASED
2018
August 1
PUBLISHER
David P. Miraldi
PRESENTED BY
Audible.com
SIZE
565.3
MB