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Justice is, in this day, bewailing its plight... The murder of a retired Los Angeles school teacher in 2004 never made the evening news, yet within hours arrests were made, charges filed, and a speedy conviction sent to prison Jimmy Kitlas, an incredibly shy, special needs teenager with no criminal history whatsoever. 20 years after the murder, a woman named Kelley Leigh asked Burl Barer and Frank C. Girardot to investigate. She believed that the case's rapid resolution concealed a deeper, more troubling narrative-one marked by deception, manipulation, dishonesty, and a profound disregard for truth and justice. She was right. Of the last three people to see the victim alive, only one had both the motive and the opportunity to strangle him to death, and it wasn't Jimmy Kitlas. What begins with a dead body on the bed leads to a bizarre scheme to steal a fortune in gold, a plot to smuggle MDMA, and an incredible joint effort by the American Mafia and the Russian Mob to defraud the United States Government out of billions of dollars. ""Tautly written and deeply reported, the authors have created a gripping page-turner...A masterwork of true crime-and an unforgettable study of injustice."" --Kerrie Droban, true crime author of Running with the Devil

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Burl Barer is a NYT Best Selling author, Edgar Award winner, and two-time Anthony Award nominee with extensive media, advertising, marketing, and public relations experience. Garnering accolades for his creative contributions to radio, television, and print media, Barer's career has been highlighted in the London Sunday Telegraph, New York Times, USA Today, Variety, and on ABC's Good Morning America. He has hosted the Internet's first award-winning true crime podcast, True Crime Uncensored, for 17 years. The author of several true crime classics, Barer co-authored with Frank C. Girardot, Jr. ""Betrayal in Blue"" and ""A Taste for Murder."" Frank C. Girardot, Jr., born in Detroit in January 1961, is an award-winning journalist, author, victim advocate, and former radio host. His career launched as a copyboy at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, evolving into coverage of landmark cases like the O.J. Simpson trial. Girardot's acclaimed biography ""Becoming Clark Rockefeller"" exposed serial imposter Christian Gerhartsreiter (aka Clark Rockefeller). A board member of Justice for Homicide Victims, he is the author of ""Burned"" and co-author with Burl Barer of ""Betrayal in Blue"" and ""A Taste for Murder"" with Burl Barer, blending meticulous reporting with compassionate advocacy.

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