My short story “Mistwillow Crime Wave” was a winner in the 2007 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers contest for the anthology Tales from Mistwillow.  The story is based on a phenomenon that plagues police departments everywhere, large or small—that of people confessing to crimes they didn’t commit.  One of the more astounding examples of this is the man who confessed to being Jack the Ripper.  The police wasted no time in finding the man was only two years old at the time of those infamous deeds.  Less fortunate was the sailor who was hanged for starting a disastrous fire in Chicago, although it was determined that he had been at sea during the time in question.