It Happened to Audrey: A Terrifying Journey From Loving Mom to Accused Baby Killer

by Audrey Edmunds, Jill Wellington

Overview

Audrey Edmunds was ahappily married young mother of two with ababy on the way; the neighborhood soccermomin a small Wisconsin town providing casual childcare when the unthinkablehappened. An infant died inher care at the same timethe unknown science ofShaken Baby Syndrome hit the media.Swept up in amedia frenzy,Edmunds was accused of killing thechild throughSBS. She was stripped from herchildren and husband and sent to prisonwhere she would fightfor freedom13 years before she was finallyexonerated afterupdatedscience showed her innocence.Audreywas and is an all-American mother fromAmericas Heartlandand shares her story ofhopeand redemption inthe face of unrelenting odds.Built as the ideal readers clubbook,It Happened to Audrey includes book club questions that challengeall readers tothink of the possibilities in todaysever-changing world.Edmunds is inspirationally released in the middle of ablizzard and reunited with hergrown children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780985799809
Publisher:	Titletown Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	12/06/2012
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

JJill Wellington has been a journalist for 35 years including 14 as an award-winning television news reporter in Michigan. Jill wrote the bestselling Penguin book, The Man Who Sees Dead People, and is working on a sequel. Jill has two children, Lindsay and Mark, and resides in Michigan with her husband Mark where she enjoys a second career as an award-winning photographer.

Audrey Edmunds is the proud mother of three daughters: Carrie, Allie and Jenni. She works tirelessly for others who are wrongfully accused of Shaken Baby Syndrome since her precedent-setting case. Audrey speaks publicly on radio and television about the faulty science of Shaken Baby Syndrome and was featured prominently in a 2012 New York Times Magazine story. She remains active in the Innocence Project and resides in Minnesota.