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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Author’s Note
Part I: The Murder
“It’s Him”
Tell Me Again
Day 1
In the Home of the Happy
Day 2
Things Unspoken
Day 3
The Nose Isn’t Right
Day 4
American Dream
Day 5
The LaHaye Farm
Day 6
The Greatest Man That Ever Was
Day 7
A Big-City Man in a Small Town
Day 8
The Banker
Day 9
Prayers to MawMaw
Day 10
St. Ann’s
On the Nezpique Bridge
Part II: The Aftermath
The Dark Decade
“Hot, Cold”
That’s Him
Things I Know About John Brady Balfa
Deborah Kinney
The Case of Terry DeVillier
At Harry Balfa’s House
Gathering Evidence
The Case Against John Brady Balfa
Hindsight
How Do You Plead?
Merry Christmas to You and Your Family
Naomi
Part III: The Trial
Notes of Evidence
“I Know I’ll Be Cleared of This”
Second-Degree Murder
Voir Dire
May It Please the Court
The Widow
The Identification
The Body in the Bayou
A Tale of Tires
The Same Source
The Nezpique
Time of Death
The Alibi
The Motive
Closing Arguments
Part IV: The Mystery
At Least They’re Near the Light
There’s More We Don’t Know
The Alcatraz of the South
Elma Meyer
He Said He’d Take the Fall
The Meyer Characters
Jimmy Sylvester
Uncle Sonny
No Formidable Plan
Part V: The Question of Relief
The Gospel of John
Jane
The Son-in-Law
Postconviction Relief
Danny Singleton
The Money Wouldn’t Have Been Enough
Smokeless Guns
Forgiveness, It’s Freedom
“Balfa Speaks”
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Photo Section
About Mariner Books
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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