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...idea for the new novel came from the case of Alejandro Hernandez, who was sentenced to death for the 1985 rape and murder of a young girl. Turow was alerted to the case by a friend. When he read the evidence--which largely rested on a single sentence in English spoken in the midst of a conversation in Spanish--and learned that a convicted child murderer had already confessed to the girl's killing, he says, "I became virtually unhinged. I couldn't believe this was happening in America...
Corporal Abraham Hernandez remembers his death as "humbling." It happened during a Pentagon war game last month at an abandoned Air Force base in the California high desert. Hernandez was hit while he and his Marine platoon were trying to secure a landing zone for a helicopter that was bringing in troops to help take the "city." The enemy, masked by surrounding buildings and sandbag bunkers, fired on the group. The laser-activated beeper on Hernandez's belt went off, signaling that he had been killed in action; 22 of his 27 fellow platoon members suffered the same fate...
...first year they came back at Christmas," Hernandez recalls, "they were such a happy family. But it started to degenerate." Even as Barton received promotions at work, says Hernandez, the marriage was dying: "She'd come in really dragged out, really bummed out." John would come and go. By last Christmas, Barton wanted him to sign divorce papers. But he refused...
...boxed oranges, peaches and nectarines. She soon realized that John, a carpenter who worked hard from one construction job to the next, had problems and did not have the kind of ambition she was discovering in herself. "He's not kind of a go-getter," says her friend Hernandez. While caring for two children, Terry enrolled in an adult-education class in 1992, got her high school diploma--and a job as a ranger...
...loved the outdoors, but working for the Forest Service was no picnic. Hernandez says Terry would mark timber for loggers, using spray paint that the wind blew into her face even as trees came crashing down around them. She went on ground patrol, sometimes stumbling over a corpse or a marijuana crop. Hernandez says she and her friend were victims of a sexual-harassment case, which was not settled to their satisfaction. That may have been one reason Barton decided to leave California in 1994. Another reason: to try to save her marriage...