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Language English Media type Print ISBN 0-688-06889-8 Country United States of America | 3.7/5 Goodreads Publication date 1984 Pages 416 pp Originally published 1984 Cover artist Paul Bacon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher William Morrow and Company Similar Joseph Wambaugh books, Murder books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ten minutes of echoes in the darkness with peter coyote and eljko ivanek
Echoes in the Darkness is the title of a 1987 book by crime writer Joseph Wambaugh which also became a made-for-TV movie the same year. The book details the lurid tale of the murder of Pennsylvania's Upper Merion Area High School English teacher Susan Reinert and her two children in 1979. The case captured national media attention. Both her boss, high school principal Jay C. Smith, and her lover and colleague William Bradfield were convicted, although Smith's conviction was later overturned, because of police and prosecutorial misconduct in the case.
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Echoes in the Darkness was adapted into a made-for-television mini-series in 1987. The television production starred Treat Williams, Peter Coyote, Stockard Channing, Peter Boyle, Gary Cole and Robert Loggia, and was directed by Glenn Jordan.
The Chief Investigator, John J. Holtz of the Pennsylvania State Police, later admitted having accepted $50,000 from author Wambaugh. The money was provided on the condition that suspect Jay Smith be arrested.