The way he sees it McCowen, an epileptic black man with an IQ of 76, was wrongfully convicted despite the facts that there was no weapon, no witnesses and no fingerprints. Racism, police misconduct, a contaminated crime scene, lying witnesses, nonsubpoenaed cell phone records, a crafty district attorney and drug abuse triggered largely by the Nantucket-ization of Provincetown all came into play, according to Manso.īut back to the trial. The self-described two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee said what he thought would be an 18-month project turned into a six-year one anchored in “good old-fashioned, muckraking investigative journalism.” Alan Dershowitz, Vincent Bugliosi and Barry Scheck “blurbed” the book jacket, he said. Reached by phone Wednesday in his Truro, Mass., home, Manso said, “This is a review designed to kill a book, not to describe a book or its shortcomings.”
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