The hearing went on despite the attempts to stop it. The night before the hearing, someone shot out a window in Dan’s home. George Bovine, the father of a girl who had been abducted and raped by Edmund, tried to convince Dan that even if Edmund was not guilty of killing Sarah, Edmund needed to be in prison to keep other women safe from him. Various people, including the sheriff and Edmund’s previous lawyer, discouraged Tracy from pressing for a hearing for Edmund. Dan saw the same inconsistencies that Tracy had discovered and agreed to help Edmund get a hearing for post-conviction relief. At that point, Tracy asked Dan O’Leary, a childhood friend who had become a lawyer, to look over her investigation. She had hit a dead end until her sister’s remains were discovered. A hunter’s dog uncovered Sarah’s grave twenty years later.īelieving that Edmund, the man convicted of Sarah’s murder, had been framed for the crime, Tracy spent the twenty years since Sarah’s disappearance investigating the case.

The truck was discovered on the side of the road, out of gas, through Tracy had just filled the tank.

Tracy never forgave herself because Sarah disappeared on her way home. So that Tracy and Ben could get to the restaurant in time for their reservations, Sarah, then 18, drove home alone. Tracy’s boyfriend had arranged a special dinner during which he was going to propose to her. On the day that Sarah disappeared in 1993, she and Tracy competed in a shooting competition. New evidence from the grave seemed to prove Edmund House, the man who had been found guilty of Sarah’s murder, had been framed. Twenty years later, Tracy was working as a homicide detective when her sister’s remains were finally found. Even as a young woman, Tracy did not think the evidence presented and conclusions being drawn at the trial for her sister’s murderer, who had been previously convicted of abducting another girl, made complete sense. In My Sister’s Grave by Robert Dugoni, Tracy Crosswhite learned too late that there was more to the conviction of the man who murdered her sister, Sarah, than she had been told. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Dugoni, Robert.

My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni