Trials of Kerry Max Cook
FYI: Book signing schedule
Vanessa E. Curry, author of Lies and Consequences: Covering the Trials of Kerry Max Cook is scheduled to appear in Tyler on the following times and days for a book signing. Copies of her book may be purchased at these locations and Curry is scheduled to be available...
The End?
https://tylerpaper.com/news/crime/smith-county-court-drops-indictment-against-kerry-max-cook-in-1977-unsolved-murder/article_c53f5cea-8137-11ef-b2f6-2fbb0f5b30cf.html
War of Words Part II
Journalist Evan Moore weighs in on the Kerry Max Cook case via an editorial published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph https://tylerpaper.com/opinion/columnists/moore-promise-of-courtroom-injustice-proves-true/article_27de6e46-7205-11ef-a3e4-07ef486253df.html Vanessa E....
Book reviews
Artie Yvonne Adams Thrash doetposSnr3h2M ta77P9135t8:303m e0l5e1gpt0ai6b3 t 975e5S7frlu10 · I'm trying to refrain from gushing about how interesting Vanessa Curry's latest book is! However, if you are interested in either of these: true crime; "who dun-it" ; the...
War of Words
David Hanners, who worked for The Dallas Morning News, criticizes the Tyler Morning Telegraph's coverage of the Kerry Max Cook case in an editorial published July 6,...
Kerry Max Cook through the years in photos
Cook photos
Cook Hospitalized
Kerry Max Cook, 68, suffered a stroke on Father's Day and was hospitalized in Houston, according to an editorial published June 25 in the Houston Chronicle. Cook was in the hospital when he learned of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeal's decision to exonerate him in...
What’s important about the Cook decision?
Exoneration of a murder/capital murder conviction is a rare and phenomenal event in the criminal justice system. In general, exoneration means the person convicted is officially cleared based on new evidence of actual innocence. Only 16 people sentenced to death in...
Why So Long?
t took the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals eight years to to rule on an actual innocence claim filed by Kerry Max Cook who served two decades on death row for the 1977 murder of Linda Jo Edwards in Tyler, Texas. "The road to this point has been long, much of it...
A Brief Look
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals exonerated Kerry Max Cook in the 1977 murder of Linda Jo Edwards in an 8-1 decision released June 19, but not all of the majority agreed he is actually innocent. In a concurring opinion, presiding Judge Sharon Keller agreed...