(Guest post by Jade)
Rarely am I offered the chance to review a stellar true crime book by a publisher. Usually, it is a book I have chosen on my own, or something wretched sent to me by some hack publishing company. It is my great pleasure this time to bring you “Twisted Confessions” by Charles E. Skollar.
Mr. Skollar was the prosecuting attorney on the Kitty Genovese case in 1964 in Queens, New York. I know most of us have heard of that case, but I myself did not know a lot of the details. This book does not give a lot of details about the case, it’s more about the emotional toll that the trial took on everyone involved.
To complicate things further, Mr. Skollar had prosecuted and convicted a young man (who had confessed) for the murder of Barbara Kralik, a rising high school junior also from Queens. After a suspect was arrested for the Genovese murder, this suspect also confessed to the Kralik murder and the murder of Annie Mae Johnson.
Mr. Skollar goes into great detail about the horrendous amount of work involved in trying to untangle one confession from another. I won’t go into detail about how he was finally able to do it. I strongly urge you to read the book for yourself and find out. You will not be disappointed.