It was a muggy summer day in 1963 when Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert were murdered in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Months passed before police arrested George Whitmore, Jr., and he confessed to the crime. But his incarceration would entail a host of shocking law enforcement missteps and cover-ups. In this first insider's account, author Robert K. Tanenbaum delivers a real-life thriller about this historic case--from the brutal crime to the wrenching conviction, which forever reformed the American justice system.--From publisher description.
