Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted by Mardi Link

By Mardi Link

On a bitterly chilly afternoon in December 1986, a Michigan kingdom trooper came across the frozen physique of Jerry Tobias within the mattress of his pickup truck. The 31-year-old oil box employee and small-time drug broker was once curled up on his facet at the truck’s naked steel, pressed opposed to the tailgate, clad purely in denims, a checkered blouse, and cowboy boots. contained in the cab of the truck used to be a clean package deal of costly steaks from a neighborhood butcher shop—the first lead in a case that might be speedy misplaced in a thicket of bungled forensics, shady prosecution, and a psychopathic superstar witness out for revenge.

Award-winning writer Mardi Link’s 3rd e-book of Michigan precise crime, Wicked Takes the Witness Stand, unravels this mysterious and nonetheless unsolved case that sucked nation police and native officers right into a morass of perjury and cover-up and eventually resulted in the separate conviction and imprisonment of 5 blameless males. This unimaginable tale will depart the reader surprised and aching for justice.

 

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