JUSTICE DENIED The Trial of Erik Rasmussen

Softcover. In 1988, Erik Rasmussen owned a dog grooming business in East Lyme, Connecticut, and was married to his high school sweetheart, Loreli. In 2004 he was serving a 35yr sentence for the wrongful conviction of his wife's murder at a Connecticut maximum security prison. It began as a bizarre murder which the media dubbed the Dungeons & Dragons Murder. A young woman is murdered at night in her home with a spear while her husband and large dog are sleeping feet away. Initial assumptions of the husband's guilt drive the investigation into a narrow avenue directed solely at him. No evidence is found to connect him to the crime but by the time the police realise this, the investigation is left with no place to go. Unwilling to admit their errors and bias and unable to go back and collect overlooked evidence, the police are left with a purely circumstantial case against the husband devoid of physical evidence or motive. Using altered reports and perjury by medical examiners and police, the State of Connecticut convicts an innocent man of the murder of his wife. In his own words, the author details how he was wrongly convicted of his wife's murder and how police and prosecutors overlook, hide and fabricate evidence to obtain a conviction, regardless of guilt or innocence. It's bound to change the way you look at the US justice and law enforcement systems. Illus. + Conclusion. 229pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.