Gone in the Night Author:David Protess, Rob Warden On a late summer evening in 1988, seven-year-old Jaclyn Dowaliby put on her favorite nightgown, said good night to her family, and went to bed. The next morning, Jaclyn's bed was empty. Four days later, her lifeless body was found in high weeds a few miles from the Dowaliby home in Midlothian, Illinois, a middle-class suburb of Chicago. The ... more »sensational crime triggered intensive news coverage. With cameras and reporters following their every move, law enforcement authorities were pressed to find, charge, and convict the killer fast.
The startling true story of a young girl's murder, and how manipulations of the law and the media sent her innocent father to prison. Dowaliby's legal team and an intrepid group of Chicago journalists--including the authors of this book--finally proved Dowaliby's innocence. Details political maneuvering and media manipulation that made this horror story possible. Photographs.« less