Evil Angels
The Case of Lindy Chamberlain
Published on 18. October 2016
560 pages
978-1-5040-4161-4 (ISBN)
Description
The basis for the Meryl Streep film
A Cry in the Dark: The dramatic true story of a mother's worst nightmare and the murder trial that shocked Australia.
On a camping trip at Ayer's Rock, the Chamberlain family's infant daughter disappeared in the middle of the night. Her distraught mother, Lindy, claimed she saw a dingo carry her off into the Australian outback. Two years later, their tragedy worsened when, without a murder weapon, a body, or even a motive, a jury convicted Lindy Chamberlain of killing her own daughter. The public cheered.
John Bryson, a trial lawyer and award-winning journalist, deconstructs the factors that led to a seemingly reasonless incarceration and the public attitude that demanded it. With this book, he began to sway popular opinion in the Chamberlains' favor by discussing the failures on the part of the police, forensics team, and press.
Winner of the CWA GoldDagger and the inspiration for the film A Cry in the Dark starring Meryl Streep, Evil Angels presents an impartial analysis of the most notorious miscarriage of justice in Australian history. It serves as a reminder of the dangers of blindly searching for a conviction, the importance of scientific accuracy, the volatility of the media, and the ease with which a nation can fall prey to bigoted thinking. Written with literary finesse, this is one of the twentieth century's most important-and thoughtful-works of true crime.
On a camping trip at Ayer's Rock, the Chamberlain family's infant daughter disappeared in the middle of the night. Her distraught mother, Lindy, claimed she saw a dingo carry her off into the Australian outback. Two years later, their tragedy worsened when, without a murder weapon, a body, or even a motive, a jury convicted Lindy Chamberlain of killing her own daughter. The public cheered.
John Bryson, a trial lawyer and award-winning journalist, deconstructs the factors that led to a seemingly reasonless incarceration and the public attitude that demanded it. With this book, he began to sway popular opinion in the Chamberlains' favor by discussing the failures on the part of the police, forensics team, and press.
Winner of the CWA GoldDagger and the inspiration for the film A Cry in the Dark starring Meryl Streep, Evil Angels presents an impartial analysis of the most notorious miscarriage of justice in Australian history. It serves as a reminder of the dangers of blindly searching for a conviction, the importance of scientific accuracy, the volatility of the media, and the ease with which a nation can fall prey to bigoted thinking. Written with literary finesse, this is one of the twentieth century's most important-and thoughtful-works of true crime.
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John Bryson, a native of Melbourne, Australia, is a lawyer and an author of both fiction and nonfiction. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger and the Victorian Premier's Award for
Evil Angels.
Content
- Praise for Evil Angels
- Contents
- So Void Was Night
- Phoenixville
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- Desert
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- God Put It Here, Himself
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- Evensong
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- Vigil
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- It's Time We All Went Home
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- Cerements
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- Evil Eye
- Every Part of Town
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- Curiosities
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- Nothing At All Like Trust
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- Faces in the Bloodstream
- Partisans
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- The Rarest Species Around
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- Spells
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- The Proper Management of Sorrow
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- A Graveyard, Floodlit
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- Use the Word: Merciful
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- For All the Good It Will Do
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- The Secret Assumptions of Science
- Sanctuary
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- Newsflashes
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- Effigies
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- Necromancy, So to Trial
- Always Running From Something
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- A Whole Different Town Here
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- Part of the Fact, Anyway
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- Enough Magnifications to See By
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- The Molecular Structure of Truth
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- 2 Timothy. 4:7
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- The Lord Should Have Been Here By Now
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- A Quiet Place on Redemption Street
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- Afterword
- About the Author
