Richard Firstman
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Richard Firstman, Jamie Talan
Unraveling a 25-year tale of multiple murder and medical deception, The Death of Innocents is a work of first-rate journalism told with the compelling narrative drive of a mystery novel.
On July 28, 1971, a two-and-a-half-month-old baby named Noah Hoyt died in his trailer home in a rural hamlet of upstate New York. He was the fifth child of Waneta and Tim Hoyt to die suddenly in the space of seven years. People certainly talked, but Waneta spoke vaguely of ‘crib death,’ and over time the talk faded.
Nearly two decades later a district attorney in Syracuse,…
