Jim Tracy

Jim Tracy’s Sworn to Silence is an unforgettable story of two American

lawyers who did the unprecedented. They searched for, found, and

photographed the lifeless bodies of their client’s victims and then

kept it secret. They did so in the face of unendurable pressure from

the authorities and the victims’ families, who suspected the lawyers

knew more than they were saying.

When the American public eventually learned of the lawyers’

actions, they were horrifi ed, outraged, and vengeful. People could not

fathom how two attorneys—fathers of teenage girls themselves—and

supposed offi cers of the law, could conduct themselves in a manner

seemingly beyond any concept of humanity.

Today, this landmark legal case is studied and analyzed in law schools

worldwide.

These events have been indelibly marked in Tracy’s mind since he

was eight years old; in fact, he was present at the scene of New York

state’s largest manhunt after the killer broke into Tracy’s father’s

hunting camp in the Adirondack Mountains. In Sworn to Silence,

Tracy weaves together a true crime narrative that should rank with

some of the most compelling American crime stories of modern times.

He does so while taking you—the reader—on a page-turning journey

back to the early 1970s, unveiling an American serial killer most

people have never heard of.