Crime and Prejudice

Shortly after 1 AM, Officer Anthony Liance of the Chicago police department, responded to an urgent call that a man had been shot in Washington State Park...

This is the setting for our case today:  the height of the Iraqi war, a hardened war yet caring war veteran in Major Galvin leading his platoon of commandos in Afghanistan, and an ambush.

To study the original case records of the Lafayette Bar shooting is to travel a winding path of perplexing questions and tiny bits of facts that have been construed into myth with evidence that was never challenged contributing to the mystery.  One thing is for certain, however, the shooting at the bar and grill had been very, very quick... 

After his release in 1961 from prison, 24-year-old Rubin Carter worked to turn his life around pursuing a career as a professional boxer leading to a short yet successful career before it was tragically cut short when on June 17th, 1966 he became involved in an infamous shooting at a bar in New Jersey resulting in the death of a bartender and two customers.

A case without a motive, no care for hiding the body, no regard for the public attention, an attack right in the heart of the city; the blueprint of a serial killer, except for one crucial mistake, the victim lived, and survived to tell the tale...