![]() Reconstructed as Mother’s Day Massacre, the story follows the lives of acquitted detective Slager, a wrongfully convicted father facing the death sentence, Langston Brown, and his daughter Liza, who’s in law school fighting until the end to prove Brown’s innocence on a case where “every witness said that the murderer was white.” Setting the story in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Robert Justice takes a single family’s story of injustice and places it on a larger communal level. Anyone familiar with the incident can easily trace the similar threads that Robert Justice skillfully weaves in his debut crime novel, They Can’t Take Your Name. The prime suspect, a former cop, was acquitted at trial. ![]() ![]() It’s been thirty years since the Father’s Day Bank Massacre of 1991, a robbery at the United Bank Tower in Denver which ended in the murders of four bank guards. ![]()
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