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Mara Leveritt is an American investigative reporter focused on Arkansas. In 1991, she broke the story that plasma drawn from Arkansas prisoners was being sold on the international market with inadequate screening for diseases. The program ended in 1994 and the prison director was forced to resign.
Mara Leveritt has covered crime, police, courts, and prisons in Arkansas for more than 30 years. In 1991, she broke the story about how plasma drawn from Arkansas prisoners was being sold on the international market, despite state officials’ awareness that inmates infected with HIV and hepatitis C were not being screened from the program.
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three is a 2002 true crime book by Mara Leveritt, about the 1993 murders of three eight-year-old children and the subsequent trials of three teenagers charged with and convicted of the crimes.
All Quiet at Mena is Mara Leveritt’s personal account of the obstacles faced by investigators reporting on one of the most secretive episodes in America’s long war on drugs.
All my books are nonfiction. Devil’s Knot (2002, Atria) details the deeply problematic trials of the teenagers who became known as the West Memphis Three.Because the prisoners attracted international support while their case was on appeal, I was asked to write about the impact of that attention for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review.
Mara Leveritt is an Arkansas reporter best known as the author of Devil’s Knot (Atria 2002) and Dark Spell, (Bird Call Press 2013), the first books of her intended Justice Knot Trilogy about three Cub Scouts who were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas and the case of the three teenagers who were convicted of the murders and then, 18 years ...
Oct 21, 2003 · Award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt’s The Devil’s Knot remains the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on the investigation, trials, and convictions of three teenage boys who became known as the West Memphis Three.
Contributing editor to the Arkansas Times and past Arkansas Journalist of the Year, Mara has reported for almost three decades on police, courts and prisons.
Mara Leveritt is an American investigative reporter focused on Arkansas. In 1991, she broke the story that plasma drawn from Arkansas prisoners was being sold on the international market with inadequate screening for diseases.
SIDELIGHTS: Journalist Mara Leveritt is a contributing editor and columnist for the Arkansas Times. In 1999 she published The Boys on the Tracks: Death, Denial, and a Mother's Crusade to Bring Her Son's Killers to Justice, the story of the deaths of two teenagers, Don Henry and Kevin Ives, who were both run over by a train near Little Rock ...
