Submerged
How a Cold Case Condemned an Innocent Man to Hide a Family's Darkest Secret
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Brandon Pollock
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Hillel Levin
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For most families that have suffered the unsolved murder of a loved one, a successful cold case investigation can finally bring closure to their tragedy and, ideally, bring the perpetrator to justice. But in 2013, when LaPorte, Indiana, police detectives arrested Jason Tibbs for the murder of sixteen-year-old Rayna Rison twenty years before, they sent an innocent man to prison, and they also removed a cloud over the victim's brother-in-law, Ray McCarty, who had previously been indicted for killing her. Three years before that, he pleaded guilty to molesting and impregnating her at the age of thirteen.
Today, Tibbs sits in an Indiana prison serving a forty-year sentence for killing Rayna Rison. His conviction in 2014 was partly due to failures in his defense and evidence that the judge would not permit in the trial. But the fact that charges were dropped against McCarty and then filed against Tibbs speaks to the remarkable influence of politics on the criminal justice system in northwestern Indiana. It also shows how notorious cold cases can be used to concoct murder charges against an innocent man. Submerged is the first book to fully examine the Rayna Rison murder in meticulous detail, fully solving the crime through clues the police overlooked. Hillel Levin tells the tragic story of a girl whose family and justice system failed to protect her.
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- 03-16-25
I remember when Rayna disappeared
I was curious at first if this was fiction based on fact. I recognized so many names and places. Quite a book
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