Why read It Happened to Audrey?

Book cover of It Happened to Audrey: A Terrifying Journey From Loving Mom to Accused Baby Killer

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Audrey Edmunds was a happily married young mother of two with a baby on the way; the neighborhood soccer mom in a small Wisconsin town providing casual childcare when the unthinkable happened. An infant died in her care at the same time the unknown science of Shaken Baby Syndrome hit…

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1 author picked It Happened to Audrey as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Justin Brooks

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I love this book because it is incredibly educational about the problem of wrongful convictions in baby death cases, but at the same time, that education is wrapped around the ordeal of a young woman caught up in a wrongful conviction.

I have litigated baby death cases, and I know the circle of heartbreak around them. Audrey Edmunds captures that heartbreak as we follow her on her journey from a daycare provider on a normal day to prison for 11 years to freedom.

From Justin's list on wrongful convictions.