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The Fraudster Who Duped a Seasoned Investigative Reporter
When Pamela Colloff first heard about a former Austin police officer turned con artist named Paul Skalnik, she knew she might have one of the great stories of her career. For the past two decades, first as a staff writer at Texas Monthly and more recently as a reporter for ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, Colloff has been one of our leading chroniclers of how the criminal-justice system can go off the rails, and Skalnik had made a career out of exploiting those flaws.In her first book, Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast (Knopf), Colloff digs into Skalnik’s life as a jailhouse informant in Texas and Florida as he runs afoul of the law…The post The Fraudster Who Duped a Seasoned Investigative Reporter appeared first on Texas Monthly.