Jingle Jangle: The Perfect Crime Turned Inside Out - Hardcover

Rix, Jim

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9780978806705: Jingle Jangle: The Perfect Crime Turned Inside Out

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ISBN 10: 0978806700 ISBN 13: 9780978806705

Publisher: Broken Bench Pr, 2007

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Rix, Jim. Jingle Jangle. The Perfect Crime Turned Inside Out. First Edition. Zephyr Cove, Broken Bench Press, 2007. 16 x 24 cm. 468 pages. Original Hardcover in original dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Signed / Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Ray Krone (born January 19, 1957) is an American who was wrongfully convicted of murder. He holds the distinction of being the 100th inmate exonerated from death row since the death sentence was reinstated in 1976. Krone was born and raised in Dover Township, York County, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Dover Area High School in 1974. He was labeled the Snaggletooth Killer (a feature which has since been corrected) and spent 10 years in prison, including two years on death row, after being found guilty of killing a Phoenix, Arizona, bartender in 1991. The woman was found dead in a bar where Krone often played darts. On April 8, 2002, Krone left prison after DNA evidence proved not only that he did not murder the victim, but identified the real killer, Kenneth Phillips, a repeatedly violent sexual offender. Copious crime scene evidence and interviews with other sources should have identified Phillips, but was ignored by the police and the prosecution's purported experts. In 2005, he received a settlement of $1.4 million from Maricopa County, and $3 million from the city of Phoenix. Since Krone's release, he has become an activist working for the abolition of the death penalty, and is Director of Membership and Training for Witness to Innocence. In February 2005, he was featured in episodes 13 and 14 of the third season of reality television show Extreme Makeover. His story is detailed in Jingle Jangle: The Perfect Crime Turned Inside Out; written by his cousin Jim Rix who was instrumental in getting Krone out of prison. (Wikipedia)

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Jingle Jangle: The Perfect Crime Turned Inside Out, by Jim Rix, is the story of criminal justice gone awry, not only in the featured case of his cousin Ray Krone, who was convicted of a Phoenix murder he didn’t commit, but also in many other cases documented by the author. Besides being a treasure trove for students of criminal justice, the book’s account of Rix’s extensive research into the Krone case will cause careful readers to wonder whether Krone got out of prison because another innocent man took his place. Justice gone twice awry = the perfect crime!

About the Author:

Jim Rix is a computer programmer by trade. In 1993, Rix began an extraordinary odyssey helping to save his cousin Ray Krone from the American justice system chronicling what he saw and learned along the way. He lives high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Lake Tahoe. Jingle Jangle is his first book.

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