AUSTRALIAN TRUE CRIME –

True-crime biography by Dean Waters and Daniel Lane, detailing Waters’ life under the extreme physical and mental abuse of his father, Ces. After confessing in 1997 to a murder committed nine years prior, Waters was acquitted due to evidence of coercion.

• Subject: Dean Waters, a former Australian heavyweight boxing champion.
• Plot: The book explores Dean’s upbringing, the abuse from his father, his boxing career, and the 1997 confession and subsequent trial.
• Outcome: The jury took only 90 minutes to acquit him, accepting he was forced to kill by his father.

290 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. First Edition #050526