The Death of Innocents - Hardcover

Firstman, Richard; Talan, Jamie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553100130 ISBN 13: 9780553100136

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1997

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Richard Firstman is a former staff writer and editor at <i>Newsday,</i> where he was the recipient of numerous awards for feature and investigative reporting.  Jamie Talan is a prizewinning science and medical reporter for <i>Newsday</i> who specializes in neuroscience and behavior.  They live in Northport, New York, with their three children.

From the Inside Flap

twenty-five-year tale of multiple murder and medical deception, <i>The Death of Innocents</i> 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553100130
• ISBN 13: 9780553100136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 632