TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finkel,Michael
TI  - True story: murder, memoir, mea culpa 
SN  - 0060580488
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper Perennial
KW  - Finkel, Michael.
KW  - Longo, Christian.
KW  - Journalists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Journalism
KW  - Corrupt practices
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Murderers
KW  - Oregon
KW  - Lincoln County
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - Child labor
KW  - Press coverage
KW  - Africa, West
KW  - False personation
N2  - In February 2002, a reporter in Oregon contacts New York Times Magazine writer Michael Finkel with a startling piece of news: a young, highly intelligent man named Christian Longo, on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for killing his entire family, has recently been captured in Mexico, where he'd taken on a new identity--Michael Finkel's. The next day comes another bit of news: a note from the editors, explaining that Finkel has falsified an article and has been fired. The only journalist the accused murderer will speak with is the real Michael Finkel. As the months until Longo's trial tick away, the two men talk for dozens of hours on the telephone, meet in the jailhouse visiting room, and exchange nearly a thousand pages of handwritten letters. With Longo insisting he can prove his innocence, Finkel strives to uncover what really happened, and his quest becomes a psychological game.--From publisher description
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