{"id":394,"date":"2021-07-12T14:51:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T20:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/?p=394"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T01:19:24","slug":"two-truths-and-a-lie-by-ellen-mcgarrahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/2021\/07\/12\/two-truths-and-a-lie-by-ellen-mcgarrahan\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Truths and a Lie by Ellen McGarrahan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/campbell.wyldcatalog.org\/Record\/a2408900?searchId=39745946&amp;recordIndex=6&amp;page=1&amp;referred=resultIndex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Check out <\/a>if you\u2019re intrigued by mystery, obsession, and an unwavering drive for the truth.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m back with another true crime hit, this one opening with an execution. The author witnesses convicted cop killer Jesse Tafero die by electrocution in 1990. He doesn\u2019t go easily into that dark night, however. Due to a fault in the chair, his head bursts into flames. It takes him seven thrashing, choking, burning minutes to die. Unsurprisingly, the author is greatly affected by this experience, more so because there is a question of whether Jesse is even guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Unable to let it go, Ellen (who is now a private investigator) looks deeper into the case, interviewing those involved including the man who confessed to the case, and Jesse\u2019s girlfriend, who was exonerated after an Alfred plea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found myself impressed by Ellen\u2019s tenacity, moved by her drive, and wrapped up with her in her obsession to solve this mystery. Recommended to any fans of true crime and real-life whodunits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out if you\u2019re intrigued by mystery, obsession, and an unwavering drive for the truth. I\u2019m back with another true crime hit, this one opening with an execution. The author witnesses convicted cop killer Jesse Tafero die by electrocution in 1990. He doesn\u2019t go easily into that dark night, however. Due to a fault in the chair, his head bursts into flames. It takes him seven thrashing, choking, burning minutes to die. Unsurprisingly, the author is greatly affected by this experience, more so because there is a question of whether Jesse is even guilty. Unable to let it go, Ellen (who is now a private investigator) looks deeper into the case, interviewing those involved including the man who confessed to the case, and Jesse\u2019s girlfriend, who was exonerated after an Alfred plea. I found myself impressed by Ellen\u2019s tenacity, moved by her drive, and wrapped up with her in her obsession to solve this mystery. Recommended to any fans of true crime and real-life whodunits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8],"tags":[55,414,295,722,206,401,723,35,724],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nonfiction","category-true-crime","tag-campbell-county-public-library","tag-ccpl","tag-ccpls","tag-ellen-mcgarrahan","tag-mystery","tag-nonfiction","tag-obsession","tag-true-crime","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccpls.info\/true\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}