On the morning of December 21st, 1991, Hazel Show walked into her apartment to find her 16-year-old daughter Laurie, viciously murdered, her throat slashed and her body assaulted by multiple stab wounds. The police quickly fingered three participants in the heinous crime: Lawrence “Butch” Yunkin as the getaway driver, Tabitha Buck as the one who held Laurie hostage in the doomed apartment, and Lisa Michelle Lambert, the one who reportedly committed the murderous act. Lisa was demonized in Lancaster County and in the media, and she was eventually sentenced to life without parole.In this utterly provocative first-hand account, Lisa Lambert is breaking her silence on every last detail of the events surrounding the murder of Laurie Show. She describes the years of physical, sexual, and mental abuse she suffered at the hands of Lawrence, the murder as it actually happened, and the startling ways that law enforcement tampered with evidence and conspired to frame her for murder. More shocking still, Lisa details her account of being raped by members of Lancaster County’s police force—an event that would certainly provide the County with good reason to silence her forever.Love, Murder, and Corruption in Lancaster County is a gripping account about a travesty of justice—and a woman’s boundless determination to vindicate herself at last. It is clear that this is an extraordinary case .[The Court] has found that virtually all of the evidence which the Commonwealth used to convict Lisa Lambert of first-degree murder was either perjured, altered, or fabricated .The police and prosecutorial misconduct was not only outrageous, but also led directly to the conviction of a woman we have found by clear and convincing evidence to have been actually innocent of first-degree murder .In making a pact with the devil, Lancaster County lost its soul and almost executed an innocent, abused woman. With these powerful words in April 1997, Philadelphia federal court judge Stewart Dalzell threw out Lisa Lambert s 1992 conviction for the murder of a younger acquaintance, Laurie Show, and ordered the 24-year-old woman s immediate release from prison. However, corruption in Lancaster once again reared its ugly head, and 16 months later, Lisa s murder conviction and life sentence were reinstated. Since then, she has doggedly fought to have her wrongful conviction set aside and to regain her freedom.From her prison cell, Lisa vividly recounts the details of her turbulent childhood; her relationship with her violent boyfriend, Lawrence Yunkin, along with a third figure, Tabitha Buck her long, circuitous odyssey through the judicial system; and her ordeal trying to survive in some of the country s toughest women s prisons.Coauthor David Brown, who conducted extensive research on the case, analyzes the complex legal issues in this story, and reveals the sleazy and politically motivated misconduct engaged in by judges and prosecutors who were hell-bent on keeping Lisa incarcerated at all costs.Love, Murder, and Corruption in Lancaster County is a gripping account about a travesty of justice and a woman s boundless determination to vindicate herself at last. Lisa Michelle Lambert, then a 19-year-old in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was wrongly convicted in 1992 of the December 19, 1991 murder of 16-year-old Laurie Show. She received a life sentence and, except for a brief reprieve in 1997-98, has been incarcerated, serving time in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Massachusetts. While at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Framingham, Lisa obtained her bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from Boston University in 2011, finishing as the valedictorian of her prison class. While this is Lisa’s first published book, she has also written and illustrated a novel for children, “The Candlemas Wish.” David Brown, a Philadelphia lawyer who lives with his wife Kim and his children Alex, Jack, and Caroline in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, is the author of four previous books.