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Once Upon a Time: A True Tale of Memory

by Harry N. MacLean · 1993

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Recounts George Franklin's 1990 trial in a California courtroom for the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl, after his daughter testified she had witnessed the crime but had repressed the memory for twenty years. Reprint.

Subject
true crimepsychology
Setting
california
Audience
adult
Length
long · 576 pages

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