One Story I Wrote Haunted Me. So I Kept Chasing It Down

Ana Maria Rus

Five years ago, I published a report in these pages titled “The Devil You Know.” It examined the wrongful convictions of two young men for the rape and murder of Josette Wright, a 12-year-old girl in Carmel, New York. In the fall of 1995, hunters stumbled on Josette’s bones in the woods near rural Carmel, an hour north of the Bronx. Those remains bore the marks of a skilled woodsman and ritual sadist.  Josette’s body was found months after another girl in small-town Carmel had gone missing.

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