Unanswered Cries: A True Story of Friends, Neighbors, and Murder in a Small Town by Thomas FrenchMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
A well-written account about the murder perpetrated by the recently deceased George Lewis. It wasn't until two years after the crime, in March 1986, that Lewis was arrested by a detective who happened to be a close friend. (Hence "Friends" in the subtitle.) Lewis was convicted of first-degree murder and sexual battery and sentenced to life in prison and the Tampa Bay Times wrote at length about the case in a series published in 1986 and 1988, which was later turned into this book. Some of the interesting elements of this forensic and legal story is the racist/inter-racial element, unscrupulous defense tactics (apparently unsuccessful for the first time), the early use of Luminol and the general rising trend of popular belief in trace evidence over circumstantial evidence.
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