The shooter at midnight: murder, corruption, and a farming town divided - sean patrick cooper

The harrowing true story of a cold-blooded murder and the campaign to bring justice to a suffering Midwestern town On a November night in 1990, Cathy Robertson is murdered in her home outside Chillicothe, Missouri.

After law enforcement conduct a haphazard investigation, the sheriffs office puts the case in the hands of a Kansas City private eye with his own agenda.

In a close-knit town still reeling from the aftereffects of the farming crisis, friends and neighbors abruptly fracture into opposing camps.

Mark Woodworth, a Robertson family neighbor, eventually receives four life sentences for a crime that a growing group of local supporters believe he didnt commit.

In a surprising, dramatic narrative that spans decades, Marks family turns to Robert Ramsey, an attorney willing to take on a corrupt political machine suppressing the truth.

But the communitys way of life is irrevocably damaged by the parallel tragedies of the farming crisis and Cathys unsolved murder, in a gripping story about the fault-lines of a fracturing America that continue to cut across the farm belt today.