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Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast

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Both chilling and enlightening, this true story follows a con man who helped convict innocent men for his own gain, while exposing prosecutors willing to win at any cost.

The gripping true story of a serial con man and the innocent man he sent to death row by award-winning New York Times Magazine writer Pamela Colloff

For more than three decades, Paul Skalnik roamed the Gulf Coast lying about who he was. He passed himself off as a fighter pilot, a high-rolling oilman, a criminal defense attorney, an undercover agent, and a terminal cancer patient. In these guises he married nine women—some at the same time.

When Skalnik got caught, as he invariably did, he wou...