Recommendations For Non-Fiction Books About Wrongful Convictions

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"'I'm a mother. I'm a grandmother. Please don't shoot me,'" Tanis' daughter, Barbara Burns, now 55, recalls her mother telling her later in the hospital. Burns would later insist that her mother picked out mug shots of Carter and Artis, explaining: "You don't look a man in the eyes and plead for your life and forget what he looks like."

But the police say Tanis chose photos of other men — hence, another thread of mystery.

At the hub of almost every aspect of the mystery, however, are Carter and Artis. That night, neither was able to provide an ironclad account of their whereabouts at the time of the Lafayette Grill killings.

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Carter, now 63 and a prisoners' rights activist in Canada, did not respond to numerous requests for an interview, although he has long proclaimed his innocence. Artis, 53 and a youth counselor in Virginia, reaffirmed his innocence in an interview, adding that "my heart goes out" to the victims' families "but, simply stated: I'm not the one."

Many police officers not only disagree with Carter's and Artis' not-guilty claims, but still resent being accused of railroading the two men. "I would never be involved in framing anyone," said retired Paterson Deputy Police Chief Robert Mohl, 66, of Toms River, who was a detective in 1966 and played a key role in the case.

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The Sun Does Shine

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