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

Valena Beety

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Audrey Edmunds, a Wisconsin mother providing home daycare, was convicted of killing an infant in her care after the child died and doctors said the child had been shaken to death—Shaken Baby Syndrome.

Edmunds spent over a decade in prison before being exonerated and proving that the evidence used to convict her was flawed and faulty. Some of my own clients, including Tasha Shelby in Mississippi, were wrongly convicted based on Shaken Baby Syndrome when their child tragically died.

If losing your child isn’t tragedy enough, imagine being blamed and punished for it. Audrey’s memoir traces her wrongful conviction, imprisonment,…

From Valena's list on The best books to learn about wrongful convictions of women and queer people.

Justin Brooks

Author

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 The best books about wrongful convictions.