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From the Book to the Screen

Explore five U.S. cases through true crime books and screen adaptations, including The Burning Bed, Small Sacrifices and The Good Nurse.

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After Netflix, Explore the Real Case

Go beyond Inventing Anna, The Good Nurse, Unbelievable and When They See Us with related books, reporting and U.S. case files.

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Explore Ann Rule’s Casebooks

Choose an Ann Rule book alongside Small Sacrifices, And Never Let Her Go or Dead by Sunset.

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Revisit the TV Movies You Remember

Find books and case files behind The Burning Bed, A Woman Scorned and In a Child’s Name.

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CASE 428Texarkana, Arkansas

2013

Patricia “Patti” Wheelington

Patricia “Patti” Wheelington was killed at her Texarkana home in December 2013. The investigation focused on Virginia Hyatt, whose husband had been involved with Wheelington, and tested her account against surveillance and other circumstantial evidence. A Miller County jury convicted Hyatt of capital murder in 2016, bringing a life-without-parole sentence. Arkansas’s Supreme Court affirmed in 2018, with two justices dissenting. The opinion and local coverage allow readers to examine both the ruling and the disputed evidence.

Audiobooks SearchTV & documentaries 1Reporting 2Social Media 0Court records 1Fiction WorkPositive Outcome
CASE 124West Memphis, Arkansas

1993

The West Memphis Three

Damien Echols
Damien Echols
Photo creditLarry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0. Cropped/resized. Adaptations use the same license.

Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers were murdered in Arkansas in 1993. Three teenagers were convicted amid disputed evidence and allegations of satanic activity. In 2011 they entered Alford pleas and were released; that outcome was not an exoneration.

Books 1Audiobooks 1Movies 1TV & documentaries 4Clippings 2Reporting 1Podcasts 14Social Media 9Blogs & essays 1Internet Archive 2Court records 1Fiction WorkPositive Outcome
CASE 195Little Rock, Arkansas

1957–1958

The Little Rock Nine

The Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock NineMeeting Mayor Robert Wagner in New York
Photo creditNew York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Albertin, Walter, photographer. / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain. Cropped/resized.

Nine Black students attempted to integrate Central High School in Little Rock in 1957. State resistance and mob hostility led to federal intervention. Their first school year brought sustained harassment even after troops escorted them inside; their accounts document the human cost of enforcing desegregation.

Books 1Audiobooks 1Movies 1Podcasts 2Social Media 0Blogs & essays 1Roads TraveledFiction WorkPositive Outcome

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