The Runaway Verdict
How a Texas Neighborhood Buried Its Own Sons in Silence — and the Ground That Finally Refused to Keep the Secret By Frank Coulter
Length1h 54m
About this audiobook
For three years, boys disappeared from the Houston Heights one and two and three at a time — walking to a friend's house, thumbing a ride, slipping out a bedroom window into a summer night — and each time the answer came back the same: he ran away. The police wrote it down. The neighborhood learned to believe it. And beneath a rented boat shed on the edge of town, the real answer accumulated in layers. This is the story of the children a community agreed not to look for, told from inside their vanishing: the ordinary trust that was turned against them, the mothers who kept searching after the files were closed, and the single night in August 1973 when the official story died and the ground gave up its count. The central question is not who killed them — that was known within hours. It is this: how does a place teach itself not to see the disappearance of its own children, and who is left to pay when the earth finally makes it impossible to look away?
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenreMystery and Thriller, Historical Fiction
Length1 hr 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 14, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Disclaimer:
2Introduction - The Looking
3Chapter One - The Elsewhere
4Chapter Two - The Face on the Poles
5Chapter Three - What Looked Like Kindness
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6Chapter Four - Old Enough
7Chapter Five - A Minute Ago
8Chapter Six - The Quiet He Built
9Chapter Seven - The Map No One Made
10Chapter Eight - The Convenience of a True Story
11Chapter Nine - From the Inside
12Chapter Ten - The Ground Gives Them Back
13Chapter Eleven - The Names on the Stones
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