Secrets, Searches and Discoveries
Crime & Justice · nonfiction

The Name Beyond the Confession

When investigators searched Chattanooga for the woman Samuel Little remembered, the files turned up nothing. Across the state line in Georgia, an old case and a face reconstructed from a skull would lead them to a family who could help give her back her name.

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Genre
Crime & Justice
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
15
Fiction status
nonfiction
Editorial responsibility
My Life Story Editorial

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Secrets, Searches and Discoveries

Chapters

  1. 01The Empty Name
  2. 02Three Matches
  3. 03Across the Files
  4. 04A Sentence Is Not an Answer
  5. 05The Texas Thread
  6. 06The City Without a Match
  7. 07The Other Side of the Line
  8. 08One Case in Court
  9. 09The Interview in Texas
  10. 10A Face He Did Not Draw
  11. 11Recognition Is Not Proof
  12. 12The Count and the Person
  13. 13Patricia Parker
  14. 14When the Interviews Ended
  15. 15A Name, Not a Total

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