The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist

The stunning story of how Mississippi's antiquated death investigation system fraudulently convicted countless innocents of crimes they did not commit. "A haunting true crime tale of systemic incompetence and racism." -New York TimesAfter two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combined thirty years in prison while the real killer remained free.The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist recounts how the criminal justice system allowed this to happen, and how two men, Dr. Steven Hayne and Dr. Michael West, built successful careers enabling injustice on a grand scale. For years, Hayne and West provided the forensic evidence prosecutors needed to put countless Mississippians in prison. But as flaws in their autopsies and testimony came to light, the convictions of Brewer, Brooks, and many others began falling apart.Now with a new chapter on the scandal's fallout, The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist tells a haunting tale of bad forensics, structural racism, and institutional failures.