Murder On A Lonely Road

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In June 1985, 20 year old former beauty pageant winner, Jackie Johns was found murdered. Two years later on the same spot the decomposed body of Debbie Sue Lewis was discovered. Sheriff Dwight McNiel's prime suspect was local rich boy Gerald Carnahan. But despite the Sheriff's suspicions, the case remained unsolved until 2007 when Jackie John's DNA was sent for testing and came with a billion to one match to Carnahan. This is the true account of a murderer who thought he was beyond the law and the policemen who would not relent until justice was finally done.

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George Pawlaczyk and Beth Hundsdorfer are investigative reporters for the Belleville (Ill.) News-Democrat in Southern Illinois near St. Louis. They have worked as a team for more than a decade during which they uncovered shoddy investigations by a state agency that led to the death of more than 50 children and exposed the practice of holding mentally ill prisoners in solitary confinement continuously for more than a decade in the state's supermax Tamms Correctional Center. They won the Robert F. Kennedy Award in 2007 for their series "Lethal Lapses" about the faulty child protection system and in 2009 won a prestigious George Polk Award for their series on solitary confinement entitled "Trapped In Tamms."