In a small Missouri town in 1992, the body of 19-year-old Mischelle Lawless was found in her car, stalled on the side of a road. Joshua C. Kezer was arrested and charged for her murder—and spent the next 16 years of his life in prison. In the new book, The Murder of Angela Mischelle Lawless: An Honest Sheriff and the Exoneration of an Innocent Man (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023), 1969 Boston College alumnus Stephen R. Snodgrass writes about how Kezer was imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. Snodgrass is an award-winning lawyer who worked to exonerate Kezer and two other men wrongfully convicted of murder. Writing with Kezer, Snodgrass unveils the web of manipulation and corruption that led to Kezer’s conviction. This book has been called “a timely, compassionate work of true crime that calls for better and more equitable justice for all.”