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One Deadly Night (St. Martin's True Crime Library) by John Glatt
Book Summary InformationAuthor: John Glatt Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2005-05-03 ISBN: 0312993099 Number of pages: 384 Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Book Reviews of One Deadly Night (St. Martin's True Crime Library)Book Review: How Stupid Are We Really Summary: 5 Stars
I truly enjoyed this book, and once again the American Criminal Justice system even with all it's advances continues to frighten me. While I can not find one shred of goodness in the heart of David Camm, and while I abhore child molesters and think they should be put away for life, i find it horrifying that a simple accusation, adultery, and a life insurance policy which we all have can land me in jail for the rest of my life simply because I am the most obvious suspect. Even with advances in scientific evidence we still allow our opinion of people shape how the case in investigated, how the DA build his case, and how the jury reaches it's virdict, and even in the face of glaring evidence to the contrary how we will stand by that belief even if it makes us look completely stupid. From the magic bullet, Sam Shephards ruined life, and OJ's six minute clean up, prosecutors and the family of victums, and the american public refuse to admit that they could be wrong or that there senario doesn't fit. Yes Camm was a sucky father, who left the care of his children of his children to his wife and day care, but as i sit here typing this today, I am looking at the picture in the local paper of a day care worker who is charged with killing three children. Is it not possible that with all the activities these children were involved with that someone at one of these institution he was so willing to let his wife leave them with had someone was molesting his daughter? They saw her alot more than he did so who would have the most opportunity. Also why will police believe the testimony of a man who has a history of attacking women and taking their personal items, and has recently served jail time for armed robbery, and looks like serial killer in the making with his supposid peeking tom shoe stea ling foot fettish,when they probably wouldn't believe him in any other circumstance so they just rebuild their theory that it was conspirecy between this man and Camm which had more holes in it than swiss cheese and the idiotic public stupidly nods their heads and agree. When you hear hoof beats you think horses not Zebras. Unless I misread in government class you must be able to prove that a person comitted a crime beyond a reasonable doubt to convict them, not prove that they didn't do it beyond a resonable doubt to find them not guilty. and when the number of reasonable doubts number atleast 11 and counting you have to let a person go. 11 people can tell you this man was anywhere else but home and somehow he's in jail? And if for the sake aurgument if he did slip home unnoticed, the question then becomes why would he go home, how would he know that his wife suspected him of doing something to his daughter, where is the phone call, the email, the letter, that says "I know what you did and I"m telling". If you can't even provide that piece of evidence, then any one with half a brain would have some type of doubt that this man didn't do it.
I don't like adulterous people, and i hate child molesters, and no one would call me a bleeding heart liberal, but what i do hate more is what has become of our criminal justice system, and it is not until most of us are on the other side of will we understand how we have let innuendo, and public opinion and not fact decide who goes to jail and who remain free. In the past decade with DNA evidence it has been proven that plenty of AFrican American men were convicted of rape often time with eye witnesses saying they were somewhere else by a biased system but even with all this scientific evidence that has been used to free people, we still refuse to use it and strength of character to say not guilty when the media tells us to say guilty. when you have juries, police, and prosecutors who are worried about pride, writing a tell all book, appearing on tv shows for money, rather than the fact, the defendent doesn't just suffer the victums do too. This has got to stop! And quick! But if all the prosecution needs is a bumb theory and proof that you have roving eye and other body parts you could end up in jail as well whether you did it or lots of us and people we love could end up in jail when we don't deserve to be.
Summary of One Deadly Night (St. Martin's True Crime Library)On September 28, 2000, former Indiana State Trooper David Camm made a frantic call to his former colleagues in the state troopers office: He'd just walked into his garage, and found lying on the floor the bodies of his 35-year-old wife, Kim, and their two children, Brad and Jill, ages 7 and 5.
This was the kind of crime that could tear the heart out of a community. The Camm's lived the American Dream. They had what seemed like a loving marriage, a nice little house with a white picket fence, and two adorable children. To top it all off, David Camm was a pillar of the community who had dedicated his career to the enforcement of the law and the sanctity of human life. Then, this happened.
Three days later, it got worse when police arrested David Camm for the triple murder. Soon, new stories started emerging: stories about mistresses and violent bursts of temper. And as the ugly truth about the Camms' marriage got uglier and the evidence against David started piling up, two families-and the community at large-took positions at opposite sides of a yawning and bitter divide.
Was David Camm a dedicated, conscientious public servant-the victim of unspeakable tragedy, railroaded by an unfair system? Or was he a cold-hearted murderer who earned his three murder convictions and every one of the 195 years behind bars to which he was sentenced?
Investigative journalist John Glatt finds out in this gripping new book.
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