A Rip in Heaven

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Este livro é de certo modo uma homenagem às suas primas e uma amostra o quão traumático e a falta de desconsideração que a justiça e a sociedade reagiu perante as vítimas e os seus familiares em torno deste caso. As a matter of fact, the Cummins siblings were extremely close to twenty-year-old Julie and nineteen-year-old Robin, and thoroughly enjoyed spending time with them. Louis, Cummins's 19-year-old brother, Tom, and his two female cousins were attacked while walking on the abandoned Old Chain of Rocks Bridge. Louis police for witness interrogation, it soon became noticeable to his family that he was a suspect in his cousins' deaths. The majority of the memoir, which is written by Tom Cummins’s sister, is about her family’s struggle to survive the crime and its aftermath.

I was blessed with a family that had to work hard, to make money, but not as hard, not wondering if I would be able to have a warm dinner the next night or not. Mas ler este “Um golpe no céu” foi ainda mais duro, por saber que não é uma história imaginada pela autora. Part of it, I think, is that it allows people living a safe, stab-free existence to peek at the dark side of the soul.In 1991, 16-year-old Cummins, her younger sister, Kathy, 14, and older brother, Tom, 18, are vacationing in St. Here, she discards the reportorial ruse and addresses us as a person whose brother lived through a horrible event, and whose cousins died in it. Most glaringly, she almost entirely glosses over claims of police abuse made by two of the defendants.

Many members of the victims’ families in this case found their views of capital punishment challenged. Tom’s rapport with [Detectives] Ghrist and Stittum remained friendly and professional throughout the interview. O mal maior é que, por causa do silêncio que a morte lhes impõe, nos esqueçamos das próprias vítimas. The flaws inherent in the criminal justice system: The book delves into the wrongful conviction and subsequent exoneration of four teenagers, including the author's brother, for Jeanine's murder. It showcases a family's determination to honor their lost ones and their battle against a justice system that initially seemed stacked against them.It serves as a reminder that sometimes, the only way to find solace and peace is by bravely confronting our inner demons and traversing the often treacherous path towards healing. The rest of the memoir is taken up by Tom’s fight to clear his name and the arrest and progress through the justice system of the four perpetrators, three of whom were African-American and convicted on the say-so of the only white youth among the four who turned state’s witness to bolster Tom Cummins’s account of the night. Escrito como forma de homenagear e não deixar que as suas primas fossem esquecidas, Jeanine Cummins aborda ainda a questão da pena de morte.

Ultimately, though, Cummins’s spandex-tight proximity – and the manner in which she narrates – works against her project’s virtues. The problem begins with Cummins’s decision to tell a personal, partly-autobiographical tale in the third-person. There are detailed word portraits of each of the main characters in the story—the book was much more about Robin, Kerry and Tom than it was about the killers, and pictures of the killers were not even included in the photo centerfold. On April 5th, the last night of their holiday, Tom decides to sneak out with his two cousins to embark on the most innocent of escapades: to see where wannabe poet Julie had graffitied a poem on the old Chain of Rocks Bridge, a local landmark once part of Route 66 but disused and superseded by a more modern bridge nearby. While two culprits are sentenced to death and the others to life imprisonment, the sentences remain subject to lengthy appeals and two decades of dragging court proceedings, prolonging the healing process for the victims' families.

This is rather surprising, since the resultant criminal trials are perhaps the most complex and interesting facet of the whole case. By embracing a positive and proactive mindset, we can transform adversity into opportunities for self-improvement, empowerment, and personal growth.

She says that “Whenever the two sisters had time off from class, they trekked to the Salvation Army’s Family Haven in downtown St. This quote reminds us that remaining ignorant is a choice, and it is only through laziness and complacency that one can stagnate intellectually. This is gripping material, seamlessly capturing both the big picture (police interrogation tactics generally) and small picture (police interrogation tactics, as applied). Remember that in the US, it is not a crime for the police to lie to you about what they know and what "evidence" they have. This isn’t a political statement, or an anti-law enforcement statement; it is a statement of common sense, as well as a logical deduction drawn from the known facts.

Most people can point to some trauma in life, whether small or large, private or public, as a defining moment. Cummins’s choice to disappear from her own story for long stretches becomes a liability as things progress. Killer was Reginald Clemons who is in jail currently but could be released in 2020 which is frightening!