Wicked Takes the Witness Stand – A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Norther…

Wicked Takes the Witness StandA Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan\nAuthor(s): Mardi Link\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: University of Michigan Regional\nISBN-13: 9780472051694, 978-0472051694\nSynopsis\nOn 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 trucks 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 shopthe 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 Links third book of Michigan true crime, Wicked Takes the Witness Stand, unravels this mysterious an.