
The Politics of Murder
The Power and Ambition Behind "The Altar Boy Murder Case"
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On a hot night in July 1995, Janet Downing, a 42-year-old mother of four, was brutally stabbed 98 times in her home in Somerville, a city two miles northwest of Boston. Within hours, a suspect was identified: 15-year-old Eddie O'Brien, the best friend of one of Janet's sons.
But why Eddie? He had no prior history of criminal behavior. He was not mentally ill. He had neither motive nor opportunity to commit the crime. Others had both. Yet none of that mattered because powers far beyond his Somerville neighborhood decided that Eddie needed to be guilty.
As laid out in The Politics of Murder, the timing of this case did not bode well for Eddie. A movement hoping to stop the supposed rise of young superpredators was sweeping the nation, and juvenile offenders were the targets. Both the Massachusetts governor and an elected district attorney who personally litigated this case supported juvenile justice reform, and both aspired to higher offices.
Eddie O'Brien's case garnered both local and national publicity: He was the youthful Irish Catholic boy next door. His grandfather was the retired chief of the Somerville Police Department. Court TV covered the trial in adult court gavel to gavel, calling it the altar boy murder case. His highly publicized case changed the juvenile laws in Massachusetts. Other states began to follow suit. But did the justice system fail Eddie?
That's the contention of author-attorney Margo Nash in her explosive exposé, The Politics of Murder. Appointed Eddie's guardian ad litem, Nash attended every court session and eventually gained access to all his files. Now after painstaking research and examination of each step of the investigation, trial transcripts, and the forensic evidence, Nash makes the case that Eddie could not have committed the crime and that other viable suspects were never properly investigated and that power and ambition made his conviction a foregone conclusion.
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- PeeZee
- 08-11-17
Good if you enjoy courtroom drama
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I remember watching this case back in the day when court tv was still a thing. It made for very interesting viewing. I can still picture the young man standing at the witness stand (no witness chair in boston, you stand to testify, at least back then you did). This book painted a case that those of us watching didn't get to see. A lot of information in this book that didn't come across watching the trial. However it didn't change my feelings about the verdict. The book is an ok read. Not great but not bad either.
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- 01-28-22
injustices
Lawyer showboating and railroading an innocent child made this hard to listen to. Political agendas were a main concern, and not justice made me physically ill. Eddie's lawyer and the jury failed this young boy miserably, and I cry as write this. I voluntarily listened to a free copy of this and am giving an honest review. The narrator was okay.
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- Rika Stevenson
- 02-28-24
Poor narration
I listened to this because I remember the case and could never wrap my head around what happened, it seemed so crazy. Book was for the most part a reading of the court transcripts, or it felt that way. The narrator didn’t help. Monotone and couldn’t even pronounce a few local things correctly.
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- Angela Akey
- 03-31-19
Typical defense attorney mindset
This was hard to listen to! The narrator was awful! Every time she says, Eddie, I cringe. And it is said a lot! This book is written by a defense attorney and has that very bias veiw. I watched this trail when it happened...I'm sorry, but the kid is guilty.
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