Framed: Ten Years Stolen
READING AGE 16+
Caleb Reed was twenty-four when District Attorney Victor Hale stood in front of a jury and called him a murderer — and Caleb spent ten years in a cage for a fire he didn't set. Now the state has admitted its mistake, cut him a check, and opened the gate. But Caleb didn't survive a decade in prison just to go home. He walked out with an iron box of evidence he hid piece by piece, layer by layer. Hale is running for Attorney General. Caleb intends to make sure he campaigns from a cell.
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A man should be careful which of his enemies' directions he follows to the water, but I followed Tom Briggs's shout to the reservoir anyway. At the courthouse curb, with the handcuffs locked behind his back, Briggs had sounded like a drowning man, not a lying one.
The county reservoir lay forty minutes west of town, a long gray bowl of ……
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