Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
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For more than three decades, Paul Skalnik roamed the Gulf Coast as a serial impostor and jailhouse informant, selling invented confessions to prosecutors in exchange for his own freedom. In 1985 he shared a Florida jail cell with Jim Dailey, a Vietnam veteran charged with a girl's murder despite no forensic evidence or motive. Skalnik's claimed confession helped put Dailey on death row while Skalnik walked free. Pamela Colloff traces the damage Skalnik caused to the women and girls he exploited, the men he helped imprison, and Dailey, who later received an execution date even as another man took responsibility for the killing.
Genres: True Crime
ISBN-13: 9780593230862
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