Damned to Eternity : The Story of the Man Who They Said Caused the Flood

by Pitluk, Adam

• ISBN13: 9780306815270
• ISBN10: 0306815273
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-17
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

James Scott was twenty-four years old when he was first convicted in 1994-and then again in 1998-of intentionally causing a catastrophe. His alleged crime was causing a levee to break, which flooded over 14,000 acres of farmland during the Great Midwestern Floods of '93. Though no one died, he was the first and only person in Missouri history convicted under this obscure 1979 law and is now serving a life sentence. He won't be eligible for his first parole hearing until 2023, when he will be fifty-five years old. InDamned to Eternity, Adam Pitluk contends that James Scott was a victim of a federal agency, a town, and law enforcement hell-bent on blaming him for something he maintains he didn't do.

Author Biography

Adam Pitluk is a contributor to TIME magazine and is the author of Standing Eight. He spent most of the 1990s living along various rivers in Missouri and now lives in Dallas, Texas.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 1
Troubled Waters
	p. 7
	p. 15
	p. 21
	p. 35
	p. 45
Fear and Loathing in Quincy
	p. 61
	p. 77
	p. 87
	p. 97
	p. 113
	p. 131
	p. 145
When the Levee Breaks
	p. 163
	p. 183
	p. 197
	p. 213
	p. 229
	p. 259
Epilogue	p. 289
Interviews and Bibliography	p. 295
Acknowledgments	p. 307
Index	p. 309
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