The Death of Innocents - Hardcover

Firstman, Richard; Talan, Jamie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553100130 ISBN 13: 9780553100136

Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1997

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Book by Firstman Richard Talan Jamie

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Follows the investigation into the deaths of five babies in a single family during the early 1970s, a probe that resulted in the mother's conviction for murder

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twenty-five-year tale of multiple murder and medical deception, The Death of Innocents is a work of first-rate journalism told with the compelling narrative drive of a mystery novel.  More than just a true-crime story, it is the stunning expose of spurious science that sent medical researchers in the wrong direction--and nearly allowed a murderer to go unpunished.

On July 28, 1971 a two-and-a-half month-old baby named Noah Hoyt died in his trailer home in a rural hamlet of upstate New York. He was the fifth child of Waneta and Tim Hoyt to die suddenly in the space of seven years. People certainly talked, but Waneta spoke vaguely of "crib death." There was plenty of unease, but over time the talk faded.

Nearly two decades later a district attorney in Syracuse, New York was alerted to landmark paper in the literature on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome--SIDS--that had been published in a prestigious medical journal in 1972.  Written by a

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• Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0553100130
• ISBN 13: 9780553100136
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 632