A review by nevclue
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South by Radley Balko, Tucker Carrington

4.0

Extremely detailed and perhaps a bit overlong, but I can't really fault the authors for that because this is a jaw-dropping indictment of the coroner system in Mississippi, bunk forensic science (apparently most of it), and the accompanying collusion of police, lawyers, and judges. This is not a whodunit about the two murders that Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks were wrongly convicted of--the real murdered is named at the very beginning and we know that he goes to jail. Instead it's about the system that allowed them to be convicted.

Content warning for fairly graphic details of child rape and murder, as well as descriptions of lots of other violent crimes.