Stamford '76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s

by JoeAnn Hart

Book Overview

In July 1976, a twenty-four-year-old white woman, Margo Olson, was found in a shallow grave in Stamford, Connecticut, with an arrow piercing through her heart. A few weeks later, Howie Carter, her black boyfriend, was killed by the police. Howie and Margo's interracial relationship held a distorted mirror to the author's own, with Howie's best friend, Joe. Joe's theory was that the police didn't have any evidence to arrest Howie; operating on the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160938637X
• ISBN13: 9781609386375
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"