A Daughter Searches For Her Mother's Killer & Finds Herself As Well

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 25, 2017

Leah Carroll joins us to discuss her memoir Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder. She attempts to unravel the mysteries of her parents’ lives. Her mother was murdered by mafia drug dealers when she was four, and her troubled father died by the time she was 18.

This segment of "The Leonard Lopate Show" is guest hosted by Mary Harris.

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