Free Download Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B69B1MFK | 2023 | 13 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Alex Mar
Narrator: Alex Mar
A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime-and its extraordinary aftermath. On a spring afternoon in 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a fifteen-year-old girl kills an elderly woman in a violent home invasion. In a city with a history of racial tensions and white flight, the girl, Paula Cooper, is Black, and her victim, Ruth Pelke, is white and a beloved Bible teacher. The press swoops in. When Paula is sentenced to death, no one decries the impending execution of a tenth grader. But the tide begins to shift when the victim's grandson Bill forgives the girl, against the wishes of his family, and campaigns to spare her life. This tragedy in a midwestern steel town soon reverberates across the United States and around the world-reaching as far away as the Vatican-as newspapers cover the story on their front pages and millions sign petitions in support of Paula.