{"title":"Lise Olsen","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"code-of-silence-book-lise-olsen-9780807007280","title":"Code of Silence","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2021 IRE Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIn the age of #MeToo, learn how brave whistleblowers have dared to lift the federal court's veil of secrecy to expose powerful judges who appear to defy laws they have sworn to uphold\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCode of Silence\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of federal court employee Cathy McBroom, who had to flee her job as a case manager in Galveston, Texas, after enduring years of sexual harassment and assault by her boss-US District Judge Samuel Kent. Following a decade of firsthand reporting at the \u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, investigative reporter Lise Olsen charts McBroom's assault and the aftermath, when McBroom was thrust into the role of whistleblower to denounce a federal judge.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What Olsen discovered by investigating McBroom's story and other federal judicial misconduct matters nationwide was shocking. With the help of other federal judges, Kent was being protected by a secretive court system that has long tolerated or ignored complaints about corruption, sexism, and sexual misconduct-enabling him to remain in office for years. Other powerful judges accused of judicial misconduct were never investigated and remain in power or retired with full pay, such as US Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski and Kozinski's mentee, Brett Kavanaugh.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e McBroom's ultimate triumph is a rare story of redemption and victory as Judge Kent became the first and only federal judge to be impeached for sexual misconduct. Olsen also weaves in narratives of other brave women across the country who, at great personal risk, have reported federal judges to reveal how sexual harassment and assault occur elsewhere inside the federal court system. The accounts of the women and their allies who are still fighting for reforms are moving, intimate, and inspiring-including whistleblowers and law professors like Leah Litman, Emily Murphy, and novelist Heidi Bond, who emerged to denounce Kozinski in 2017. A larger group of women-and men-banded together to form a group called Law Clerks for Accountability, which is continuing to push for more reforms to the courts' secretive complaint review system.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCode of Silence\u003c\/i\u003e also reveals the role the press plays in holding systems of power in check. Kent would not have been charged had it not been for Olsen's reporting and the \u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e's commitment to the story.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49743839920401,"sku":"NGR9780807007280","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52152980472081,"sku":"CIN0807007285VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807007285.jpg?v=1751395658"},{"product_id":"code-of-silence-book-lise-olsen-9780807008676","title":"Code of Silence","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50362091503889,"sku":"CIN0807008672G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50368548864273,"sku":"CIN0807008672VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807008672.jpg?v=1751362649"},{"product_id":"scientist-and-the-serial-killer-book-lise-olsen-9780593595688","title":"The Scientist and the Serial Killer","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER . The true story of how one dedicated forensic scientist restored the long-lost identities of the teenaged victims of the \"Candy Man,\" one of America's most prolific serial killers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"A masterwork of crime writing . . . Lise Olsen has taken a fifty-year-old story and made it new and fresh and terrifyingly real.\"-S. C. Gwynne, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eRebel Yell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Houston, Texas, in the early 1970s was an exciting place-the home of NASA, the city of the future. But a string of more than two dozen missing teenage boys hinted at a dark undercurrent that would go ignored for too long. While their siblings and friends wondered where they had gone, the Houston police department dismissed them as runaways, fleeing the Vietnam draft or conservative parents, likely looking to get high and join the counterculture.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It was only after their killer, Dean Corll, was murdered by an accomplice that many of those boys' bodies were discovered in mass graves. Corll, known as the \"Candy Man,\" was a local sweet-shop owner who had enlisted two teens to lure their friends to parties, where they would be tortured and killed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e All of Corll's victims' bodies were badly decomposed; some were only skeletal. Known collectively as the Lost Boys, many were never identified and some remained undiscovered. Decades later, when forensic anthropologist Sharon Derrick discovered a box of remains marked \"1973 Murders\" in the Harris County Medical Examiner's office, she recalled the horrifying crime from her own childhood, and knew she had to act. It would take prison interviews with Corll's accomplices, advanced scientific techniques, and years of tireless effort to identify these young men.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Investigative journalist Lise Olsen brings to life the teens who were hunted by a killer hiding in plain sight and the extraordinary woman who would finally give his unknown victims back their names and their dignity. 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