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    The Tip Off

    The Tip Off

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    The Tip Off asks journalists to explain how they got the leads for their biggest stories. This...

Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anantomy of a Murder Trial
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anantomy of a Murder Trial
Janet Malcolm | 2012 | Biography, Crime, History & Politics, Law, Music & Dance
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"Janet Malcolm is such an intellectual badass. This book was an extension of her piece of journalism in the New Yorker, where Malcolm has been a contributor for decades. It’s the fascinating story of a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, in which a young physician is accused of hiring an assassin to kill her estranged husband, a respected orthodontist. Malcolm uses the case as a way to examine how a murder trial is conducted, and to look at the American judicial system as a whole. It was the book that first sparked my interest in true crime."

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