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Analysis Of Jeanine Cummins A Rip In Heaven

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A Rip in Heaven is a non-fiction novel written by Jeanine Cummins about the deaths of her cousins Julie and Robin Kerry. The cousins were sexually assaulted and murdered in 1991 at the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge in St. Louis. Four young men Marlin Gray, Daniel Winfrey, Antonio Richardson and Reginald Clemons were eventually charged with the murders but not before Tom Cummins the writer’s brother was accused of the murders. The story relays all the pain and suffering a family goes through when members of their family are murdered, and the agony of having deal with all the false accusations to go through one of their family members is wrongly accused. Of the four men only Gray was executed by lethal injection in 2005.Winfrey served 15 years before
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