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Good Cop/Bad Cop [Hardcover]

Rebecca Cofer (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)


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April 10, 1994
When the Harris family was found brutally murdered, chief investigator David McElligott began an investigation and breathed a sigh of relief when the police's rising star, David Harding, found the murderer's fingerprints and solved the case in just six weeks.

However, McElligott suspected Harding was not a hero and continued his own private investigations. Two years later, federal authorities announced Harding had falsified evidence and perjured himself to bring about a conviction.



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Two days before Christmas in 1989, Tony Harris, his wife, Dodie, and their children, Shelby and Marc, were murdered in their home in Ithaca, N.Y. This upper-middle-class family was killed by Michael Kinge, a black ex-convict who used and then had his mother use credit cards stolen from the Harris house. McElligott of the state police largely supervised the police work, although he was suspicious of fingerprint evidence adduced by investigator David Harding to prove that Kinge's mother was present during the slayings. Kinge was later killed in a gun battle with arresting officers and his mother was jailed as an accessory. Cofer ( The Straight Story ) carefully documents the unraveling of Harding's career as he confessed to falsifying evidence to win a number of prosecutions, including that of Mrs. Kinge, and advance his career. A fine true-crime study. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 200 pages
  • Publisher: New Horizon Press (April 10, 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0882820885
  • ISBN-13: 978-0882820880
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,832,933 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A gruesome true story, December 30, 2007
This review is from: Good Cop/Bad Cop (Hardcover)
This is one of the most gruesome events to happen in the Ithaca area.
Living very near Ithaca, I remember this tragedy as if it happened yesterday.
Most people were very pleased with the diligence with which the NYS Police conducted the investigation, and the subsequent attempted arrest of Michael Kinge.

I remember the outrage when Shirley Kinge sued NYS and won because of a over zealous cop.
This is a must read book, you will not be able to put it down.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A disturbing and chilling account of Police corruption, January 22, 1998
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My father was the attorney for the "bad cop" so this book really hit home. I couldn't put it down once I started it. The horrible murders and the subsequent investigation and evidence tampering make you wonder about what you would do if confronted with solving a brutal murder, and having little evidence except for a gut feeling .
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