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Sworn to Silence

The Truth Behind Robert Garrow and the Missing Bodies' Case

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Sworn to Silence

By: Jim Tracy
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
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Why would two small-time American public defenders search, locate, and photograph the lifeless bodies of young women their client raped, murdered, and hid, and then leave the bodies where they found them and not tell authorities? And how did they have the audacity to meet with one of the fathers of a missing girl and tell him they knew nothing about her fate or whereabouts?

When the nation eventually learned of the lawyers' actions, they were horrified and outraged that two officers of the law could act in a way that seemed beyond any concept of humanity.

In Sworn to Silence, award-winning reporter Jim Tracy tells the lawyers' story within the framework of a true crime narrative. He uncovers a criminal who police and the public never learned was an American serial killer. Tracy does so while taking the listener back briefly to American life in the early 1970s.

©2021 Jim Tracy (P)2021 Tantor Americas Murder State & Local True Crime United States Crime Nonfiction Crime
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All the detail, delivered in a slightly detached observation style, leaving the audience to decide for ourselves how the ethics of the two lawyers sit with us personally.
There is no grey-area about the horror of Garrow's early life and later murderous actions, though. Truly terrifying.
(I listened at 1.2 speed as the narrator was too slow at normal speed)

All the detail...

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This was an eye opener into a terrifyingly scheming and manipulative mind Mitigating circumstances of a brutal childhood are proven to be of no excuse or. reason Evil does walk the earth

Evil does walk the earth

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Really interesting and appalling- how two lawyers put a murderers welfare before 2 young girls who been murdered by him was terrible. Client confidentiality indeed. Any way the outcomes were just.

Sworn to Silence

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Oh my goodness
What a dilemma this story sets.
Fascinating tale of loyalty ,adhering to the rules.of.the.. law and ethics and morals.
The one thing that spoiled it was the narrator.

Get past the narration and you're on to a winner

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An interesting account of the crimes committed by Robert Garrow, his manipulative behaviour and the dilemma faced by his lawyers. It must be very difficult for defence lawyers who are legally unable to disclose what their clients tell them in confidence. They were damned if they did and damned if they didn't. The writing itself, however, left much to be desired. There were far too many unnecessary details and much repetition that could have been summarised. It was almost as if the author wanted to include every piece of information related to the case he had discovered in his research, regardless of whether it was actually needed or not. A particular example of this was when Garrow was successful in his transfer request and the the author then proceeded to include the official letter he'd received in its entirety. One or other was needed, preferably the former! Finally, I felt that it was unnecessary to give all the gruesome details of how Garrow killed the farm animals.

Needed to be more succinct

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