True Story
by Michael Finkel · first published 2005
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In the haunting tradition of Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision and Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, and deceit with a deeply personal inquiry into the slippery nature of truth.The story begins in February of 2002, when a reporter in Oregon contacts New York Times Magazine writer Michael Finkel with a startling piece of news. A young, highly intelligent man named Christian Longo, on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for killing his entire family, has recently been captured in Mexico, where he'd taken on a new identity -
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on “Ask HN: Best books you read in 2023” ↗For reference, Michael Finkel was fired from the New York Times for fabricating a character in a story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Finkel From the description of his book "True Story": http://www.amazon.com/True-Story-Murder-Memoir-Culpa/dp/B002... In 2002, Finkel, a rising star at the Times, was fired for fabricating a character in a story about child laborers in Africa
on “The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit” ↗