Scrapped

Justice and a Teen Informant

By: Lisa Peebles, John O'Brien

Narrated by: Jim Cooper

Criminal defense lawyer Lisa Peebles was taken aback by a secretly recorded phone call and police interrogation video that surfaced in a 20-year-old kidnapping case. They held the stench of a cover-up. She recruited an investigative reporter to help unearth the truth and exonerate Gary Thibodeau, the man convicted in the 1994 kidnapping and murder of 18-year-old Heidi Allen.

Scrapped: Justice and a Teen Informant exposes the underbelly of a system built more for finality than justice. It's the true story of Peebles' pursuit of new evidence against three new suspects and her discovery that Heidi had lived a double life: convenience store cashier and undercover informant. The sheriff's office hid the truth after her death as the real killers roamed free. Peebles became a de facto prosecutor to prove their guilt and Gary's innocence. As Heidi's family stood by the sheriff, her remains were likely secreted right under their noses - probably inside a scrapped van and shipped to a car shredder in Canada.

©2021 Black Rose Writing (P)2021 Beacon Audiobooks

Critic reviews

"Scrapped captures the barren roads and fallow fields of Oswego County the way Capote captured Finney County, Kansas in In Cold Blood." (Tom Barbash, New York Times best-selling author of The Dakota Winters)

must read!!

If you are into true crime stories, you can't miss this one. The details are astounding and you will shake your head in bewilderment as the story progresses. I will be listening to this one again.

Interesting and saddening

Too many details too hard to follow
Book needed to condense the story line. I did enjoy many segments of story but just too many details to sort through.