Sworn to Silence: The Truth Behind Robert Garrow and the Missing Bodies' Case

Two small-town attorneys who outraged the nation defending a hated man; the detective who desperately sought answers to the whereabouts of missing women; the unveiling of a modern-day serial killer; and the author who witnessed the drama firsthand.

Jim Tracy's Sworn to Silence is an unforgettable story of two American lawyers who did the unprecedented. They searched for, found, and photographedthe lifeless bodies of their client's victims and then kept it secret. They did so in the face of unendurable pressure from the authorities and the victims' families, who suspected the lawyers knew more than they were saying.

When the American public eventually learned of the lawyers' actions, they were horrified, outraged, and vengeful. People could not fathom how two attorneys--fathers of teenage girls themselves--and supposed officers of the law, could conduct themselves in a manner seemingly beyond any concept of humanity.

Today, this landmark legal case is studied and analyzed in law schools worldwide.

These events have been indelibly marked in Tracy's mind since he was eight years old; in fact, he was present at the scene of New York state's largest manhunt after the killer broke into Tracy's father's hunting camp in the Adirondack Mountains. In Sworn to Silence, Tracy weaves together a true crime narrative that should rank with some of the most compelling American crime stories of modern times. He does so while taking you--the reader--on a page-turning journey back to the early 1970s, unveiling an American serial killer most people have never heard of.

Author: Jim Tracy
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Published: 03/30/2021
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781642936261
ISBN10: 164293626X
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | Murder | Serial Killers
- Law | Ethics & Professional Responsibility
- History | United States | State & Local | Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD,

About the Author
Jim Tracy has won multiple national and state writing awards, including first place in the prestigious Associated Press Sports Editor contest. Around this time, he spent ten years at The Post-Star, a Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper in Glens Falls, N.Y.

He graduated from the State University of New York. Prior to a successful career in journalism, Tracy was a former aide to New York State Senator Norman Levy (R-Nassau County). He was born, raised, and still resides in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, with his wife, Angela, and teenaged daughters Sam and Shay. He's spoken publicly about the Garrow case at several historical societies in New York state.