Colin Evans' Slaughter On A Snowy Morn tells the remarkable story of New York farmhand Charles Stielow, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1916, only to be spared in his final moments thanks to forensic evidence.
This never-before-told story of wrongful conviction is one of the most compelling in criminal history. Written with page-turning verve, and filled with a cast of colourful characters, including the New York Governor Charles Seymour Whitman, the Sing Sing Prison warden who fervently opposed the death penalty, Thomas Mott Osborne, and Charles E. Waite, the man whose forensics expertise proved Stielow's innocence, it reveals how this event revolutionised forensic science forever.