Jingle Jangle: The Perfect Crime Turned inside Out

Jim Rix's ordinary life was interrupted when he learned in 1992 that a cousin was on Arizona's Death Row. Rix had never met Ray Krone and initially took only a casual interest in his case. He soon learned that among the abundance of evidence (fingerprints, footprints, pubic hairs, eyewitness testimony, DNA), only a bite mark tied his cousin to the murder of Kim Ancona, a Phoenix bartender. Questioning Ray's guilt, Rix invited a well-respected odontologist (bite mark expert) into the evidence room in the basement of the Maricopa County courthouse to compare the evidentiary bite mark photos to the cast of Ray's dentition. The second opinion not only convinced Rix of his cousin's innocence, but also embarked him on an extraordinary, eye-opening journey through the criminal justice system.

Jingle Jangle is not simply the story of the monumental effort by family and friends to free Ray Krone, it is a penetrating indictment of an unfair justice system administered in large measure by a clique of individuals who play the justice game to win, not to discover the truth. With honesty, wit and a genius for interweaving story and brief, Jim Rix tells a no-holds-barred tale – a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a strange verdict, a quest to make sense of it all and a righteous battle against injustice.