About the Author

Jim Rix’s ordinary life was interrupted when he learned in 1992 that a cousin was on Arizona’s Death Row. Rix had never met Ray Krone and initially took only a casual interest in his case.

He soon learned that among the abundance of evidence (fingerprints, footprints, pubic hairs, eyewitness testimony, DNA), only a bite mark tied his cousin to the murder of Kim Ancona, a Phoenix bartender.

Questioning Ray’s guilt, Rix invited a well-respected odontologist (bite mark expert) into the evidence room in the basement of the Maricopa County courthouse to compare the evidentiary bite mark photos to the cast of Ray’s dentition.

The second opinion not only convinced Rix of his cousin’s innocence, but also embarked him on an extraordinary, eye-opening journey through the criminal justice system.
 
 

The author observing the justice game with growing dismay (a small detail from one of a dozen drawings by Brooklyn artist Rob Esmay)
 
 

Jim Rix (left, with defense attorney Chris Plourd) is a computer programmer by trade. He and his brother Dan run SoftRix Corporation, an Internet-based medical/dental billing applications company. He lives high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Lake Tahoe.
Jingle Jangle is his first book.

Innocence isn’t always the best defense.