Innocent - A true story - Book Review

Innocent. A true story is a novel written by the famous author John Grisham legal thriller.
On 8 December 1982 in the town of Ada, Oklahoma, the young Debbie Carter is found by a friend on the floor of their home. It is naked, covered in blood, and someone wrote gibberish on his body. Ada is a quiet town in the Midwest, where everyone knows each other and find themselves in church. No one ever thought possible so bloody murder, and even the police are unprepared for the event. For nearly five years the case remained unsolved until investigators decided not to indict Ron Williamson, already known to police for his bizarre behavior at the edge of madness.
In "Innocent" John Grisham reconstructed with the precision of the legal and empathy of the great novelist, the story of Williamson and judicial personnel. Promising baseball player, Ron leaves Ada in 1971 and moved to Oakland, Calif., as the first choice of the local professional team. Six years later, his dreams crashing due to an arm injury. He took refuge in alcohol and drugs, will come back to defeat Oklahoma, unable to hold a job or a stable relationship and any showing signs of progressive imbalance.
When the police became convinced that he is the murderess of Debbie Carter, Williamson has no way to defend themselves. It has no money to pay for a decent lawyer, his fellow citizens view him with suspicion and mental illness makes it unfit to stand trial. Despite cries his innocence, Williamson will be overwhelmed by a judicial spiral that takes him on death row, and one step from running.
The case of Ron Williamson was obsessed with John Grisham for years, since the master of the legal thriller accidentally read his story in a local newspaper and decided to tell for the first time a real event. The result is a shocking and compelling human story is pervaded with a strong moral tension, which comes to question the entire American legal system.
It is not the "usual" rather than Grisham's novel is the detailed report of a true story based on the pleadings, absurd errors, surveys and approximate a monstrous machine that brought an innocent court within a whisker of death. It is certainly a book that makes you think that is scary and makes you realize that could happen to anyone ...