My Ghost Has a Name - 9781611178265

University of South Carolina Press

My Ghost Has a NameMemoir of a Murder\nAuthor(s): Rosalyn Rossignol\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of South Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: University of South Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781611178265, 978-1611178265\nSynopsis\nOn October 20, 1999, thirty-eight-year-old Nell Crowley Davis was bludgeoned, strangled, and stabbed to death in the backyard of her home in Bluffton, South Carolina, near Hilton Head Island. In My Ghost Has a Name: Memoir of a Murder, Rosalyn Rossignol tells the story of how Daviss sixteen-year-old daughter, Sarah Nickel, along with the two teenage boys, came to be charged with the murder. Despite no physical evidence tying Nickel to the murder, she was convicted along with the boys. In the months that followed, Nickel vehemently insisted that she was innocent.\n\nTorn by Nickels pleas, Rossignol, a childhood friend of the murder victim, committed herself to answering the question that perhaps the police detectives, the press, and the courts .