Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan - Softcover

Link, Mardi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472051695 ISBN 13: 9780472051694

Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REGIONAL, 2014

Synopsis

On a bitterly cold afternoon in December 1986, a Michigan State trooper found the frozen body of Jerry Tobias in the bed of his pickup truck. The 31-year-old oil field worker and small-time drug dealer was curled up on his side on the truck’s bare metal, pressed against the tailgate, clad only in jeans, a checkered shirt, and cowboy boots. Inside the cab of the truck was a fresh package of expensive steaks from a local butcher shop—the first lead in a case that would be quickly lost in a thicket of bungled forensics, shady prosecution, and a psychopathic star witness out for revenge.

Award-winning author Mardi Link’s third book of Michigan true crime, Wicked Takes the Witness Stand, unravels this mysterious and still unsolved case that sucked state police and local officials into a morass of perjury and cover-up and ultimately led to the separate conviction and imprisonment of five innocent men. This unbelievable story will leave the reader shocked and aching for justice.

About this title

About the Author:

Mardi Link is a journalist; a former police reporter; and the author of two true crime books, Isadore’s Secret: Sin, Murder, and Confession in a Northern Michigan Town and When Evil Came to Good Hart, which spent two months on the Heartland Indie Bestseller List and was a finalist for the Michigan Notable Book Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REGIONAL
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0472051695
• ISBN 13: 9780472051694
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448