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Investigative Journalism

How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away

By Ronan Farrow · The New Yorker · March 2025

How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away

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"When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Ronan Farrow reports on why the police refused to investigate Sean Williams."

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★ 4.4 · 15 ratings on Open LibraryTrue Crime2019528 pages

In this newly updated edition of the “meticulous and devastating” (Associated Press) account of violence and espionage that spent months on the New York Times Bestsellers list, Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost - from Hollywood to Washington and beyond. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood’s most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family. This is the untold story of the exotic tactics of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability, and silence victims of abuse. And it’s the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global movement. source: https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/ronan-farrow/catch-and-kill/9780316486668/

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