Scrapped

<p><strong><em>Scrapped</em> captures the barren roads and fallow fields of Oswego County the way Capote captured Finney County Kansas in <em>In Cold Blood</em>. -Tom Barbash <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>The Dakota Winters</em></strong></p><p>Criminal defense lawyer Lisa Peebles was taken aback by a secretly recorded phone call and police interrogation video that surfaced in a 20-year-old kidnapping case. They held the stench of a cover-up. She recruited an investigative reporter to help unearth the truth and exonerate Gary Thibodeau the man convicted in the 1994 kidnapping and murder of 18-year-old Heidi Allen.</p><p><em>Scrapped: Justice and a Teen Informant </em>exposes the underbelly of a system built more for finality than justice. It's the true story of Peebles' pursuit of new evidence against three new suspects and her discovery that Heidi had lived a double life: convenience store cashier and undercover informant. The sheriff's office hid the truth after her death as the real killers roamed free. Peebles became a de facto prosecutor to prove their guilt and Gary's innocence. As Heidi's family stood by the sheriff her remains were likely secreted right under their noses - probably inside a scrapped van and shipped to a car shredder in Canada.</p>