Alba Walking in the Shadows of Murder

<p class=ql-align-justify>A newborn baby is found dead in a California strawberry field. The tragedy brings dismay in the community and surprisingly a phone call from the Sheriff 's Department to a sixth grade schoolteacher asking for help to decipher the mystery of such inexplicable demise. Based on a true story the school teacher Award-winning author Denis O'Leary tells how he dived into the search for the perpetrator and the meaning of what caused the newborn to be left to die in the mud. He narrates the riveting story of <em>Alba Walking in the Shadows of Murder </em>as well as the response and inner workings of the <em>Mixteco </em>indigenous community in the United States. With the help of an elder Unitarian Minister a homeless journalist and a group of retired Catholic Nuns O'Leary navigates through issues of social taboos and legal justice in the case of Alba and later of a second <em>Mixteco </em>mother charged with the death of her infant son. The roller-coaster events relationships and legal systemmaneuvers unfolded to surprising conclusions in the California CentralCoast. Prejudices perceptions truths and lies all come together      </p><p class=ql-align-justify>in the events that followed the <em>Mixteco </em>women charged in the killing of their babies; lives lost one freed and future lives saved.</p><p></p>