Synopsis

From the start, the Phoenix police and the Maricopa County prosecutors “knew” that Ray Krone was guilty of the 1991 rape and murder of Kim Ancona. Krone had to do more than ten years of time – three of them on Death Row – before DNA testing proved that he didn’t do it. How could this have happened to someone who was not a “criminal type,” but an upstanding citizen, a former U.S. Air Force serviceman, a U.S. postal employee? If it could happen to him, it could happen to you.

With honesty, intelligence, psychological insight and admirable literary skill, the author reveals the dark side of criminal prosecution in Maricopa County, Arizona. After learning in 1993 that his cousin Ray was on Death Row, High Sierra-based software entrepreneur Jim Rix read the transcript of Ray’s trial and eventually assembled and assisted the legal team whose efforts led to Ray’s second trial and eventual release.

Rix doesn’t shirk from naming the detectives, forensic experts, prosecuting attorney and judge who cynically played the unscrupulous game that led to his cousin’s two convictions. Krone’s family, all but destroyed financially by the cost of his defense, cautiously expected favorable settlements from Maricopa County and the City of Phoenix. So solid was the case against the prosecutor’s office, the police department and its crime lab that in 2005 the county settled out of court with Krone for $1.4 million and the city for $3 million.

Jingle Jangle: The Perfect Crime Turned Inside Out goes way beyond telling Krone’s story and revealing the dark side of a county in Arizona. Rix’s reasoned indictment of the criminal justice system presents examples of numerous innocents who were convicted in other places. And he attacks the criminal justice system on several fronts, including expert witnesses as hired guns, the politics of judicial elections and hirings, judges predominantly former prosecutors, sex and other favors used to buy false testimony from snitches, the pernicious role of religion in some juries and the psychology of the reptilian complex.

The conclusion of Jingle Jangle will surprise and shock its many readers....

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