Life sentence : how my father defended two murderers and lost himself : a memoir / Amy Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Amy (Crime historian), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police murders--New Brunswick--Moncton--Case studies.

Police murders.

Murder victims--New Brunswick--Moncton--Case studies.

Murder victims.

Trials (Murder)--New Brunswick--Moncton--Case studies.

Trials (Murder).

Criminal defense lawyers--New Brunswick--Moncton--Biography.

Criminal defense lawyers.

Bell, Ed (Criminal defense lawyer).

Bell, Ed.

New Brunswick--Moncton.

Genre:

autobiographies (literary works)

Autobiographies

Biographies

Case studies

Case studies.

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 190 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

"A riveting blend of true crime and memoir, following the unravelling of a New Brunswick family after a brutal murder. On December 15, 1974, when Amy Bell was one year old, the city of Moncton, New Brunswick, was consumed with the search for two missing police officers--Corporal Aurèle Bourgeois and Constable Michael O'Leary. They had been abducted by petty criminals Richard Ambrose and James Hutchison after a kidnapping that had scored them 15,000 dollars. The search would lead to a clearing in the woods where the officers were found--murdered, and buried in shallow graves. Amy's father, Ed Bell, stepped up to defend the killers. His unpopular stance--"every person accused of a crime deserves a defence"--eventually led to the ruin of his career and his marriage, and Amy and her brother lived with the aftereffects: poverty and isolation. Ed Bell never spoke of his involvement in this case. It wasn't until forty-two years later, when he lay dying, that Amy, now a crime historian, stumbled upon a Polaroid photograph of one of the killers among her father's things. That discovery led her on a search for answers. Life Sentence: How My Father Defended Two Murderers and Lost Himself is a riveting work that fuses personal and criminal justice history to tell the story of a horrific crime and examine its terrible costs. Includes personal and archival news images."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Bell, Amy (Crime historian) Life sentence.

ISBN:

9781774711866

1774711869

OCLC:

1348871753

Publisher Number:

90100855497