Submerged

How a Cold Case Imprisoned an Innocent Man and Cleared a Killer to Hide a Family?s Darkest Secret

Author  Hillel Levin
Submerged

This bombshell investigation from the co-author of Black Bird reveals a cold case gone wrong that cleared a murderer and imprisoned an innocent man.

In March 1993, sixteen-year-old Rayna Rison was abducted outside the La Porte, Indiana, veterinary hospital where she worked. A month later, her body was found submerged under tree limbs in a rural pond. Police targeted her brother-in-law, Ray McCarty, as the prime suspect. Although a grand jury indicted him for the murder in 1998, prosecutors later dropped the charges. Then in 2013, county officers arrested Jason Tibbs, Rayna’s middle-school boyfriend, convicted him, and sentenced him to forty years in prison.

After a two-year investigation, drawing on dozens of interviews and more than a thousand pages of police files,…

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November 19, 2024
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