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Jingle Jangle: The Perfect Crime Turned Inside Out is a remarkable book, a page-turner that asks all the right questions, shocking us out of our complacency by exposing the deep flaws in our criminal justice system. It should be required reading for every college student in America.

– Gary T. Lowenthal, Arizona State University law professor and author of Down and Dirty Justice

The story of Ray Krone offers all readers important lessons – never give up hope, never stop believing in yourself and never stop fighting for what is right. Jim Rix paints a powerful picture of hope, frustration and perseverence.

– Caroline M. Elliot, law-school student and 2006-07 President of the UNC Law Innocence Project and the UNC Law Death Penalty Project

Jim Rix has written an astonishing memoir about his cousin Ray Krone’s wrongful conviction for a 1991 Arizona murder. Rix meticulously details every aspect of police corruption, prosecutorial misconduct, defense incompetence, expert witness tampering and jury shenanigans that led to Ray’s decade-long nightmare. Scariest about this true story is that if Ray Krone, an honest, law-abiding person, could end up on Death Row, it could happen to anyone.

– Rachel King, author of Don’t Kill in Our Names and Capital Consequences, teaches legal writing at Howard University School of Law

Jim Rix takes us on a remarkable journey inside an American tragedy. He helped win his cousin’s freedom from Death Row and now he documents the chain of errors that put him there. The story will chill your belief in the American justice system.

– Bill Kurtis, producer of the A&E programs “Investigative Reports” and “Cold Case Files”

A must for readers of true crime and anyone wondering why so many innocent people are convicted in America. The book satisfies from start to finish, from the opening of Ray Krone’s horror story, through the compelling analysis of what went wrong and on to the startling conclusion...

– Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking and The Death of Innocents

Ray Krone’s plight reflects a state justice system that has lost sight of justice in favor of winning convictions at all costs, even at the cost of innocence. Krone’s case is a call for reform from the bottom up, beginning with removing politics from prosecutorial decisions.

– Rudy Gerber, retired justice, Arizona Court of Appeals

Ray Krone’s story has so many of the elements we see over and over again in innocence cases – unreliable forensic conclusions, incomplete investigations and overvalued testimony resulting from “confirmatory bias” that occurs because everyone thinks they have the right perpetrator and they ignore evidence to the contrary. There are more Ray Krones out there – there just aren’t many who are lucky enough to have a cousin like Ray’s.

– Chris Mumma, Executive Director, North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence

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