THE SWEATER LETTER

Softcover. SIGNED. When a woman was shot and killed on the final day of deer season in 1992, it was quickly classified as a most tragic hunting accident. One person - Det. Sgt. Bob Ball of the Michigan State Police - was unconvinced. His investigation was triggered by a strangely worded letter, supposedly written by the victim herself, discovered packed in a box of sweaters. He still had little to go on but his own intuition, until a volunteer armed with a slingshshot, marbles and a metal detector, found a spent bullet buried in the leaves and snow. However, it would take months of incredibly dogged police work to gather enough evidence to arrest the elusive man who had seemingly perpetrated the perfect crime. Ball sought, and found, minute details that might have escaped a less determined and meticulous investigator. The tension was almost unbearable when the case finally came to trial, matching a youthful prosecuting attorney against the most tenacious defence attorney in the Upper Peninsula. The weapon had never been found and the investigation only proved where the defendant wasn't, not where he was, at the time of the shooting. The spectre of "reasonable doubt" weighed heavily as the jury began to deliberate: hunting accident or murder? The Moilanen case. 342pp. 8vo. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Vg.