Who Killed Ty Conn is the brilliant investigative work of Linden MacIntyre and Theresa Burke, the current host and producer respectively of the CBC's the fifth estate. It tells the tragic story of Ty Conn's life of crime and misfortune. Originally published by Viking Canada in 2000, the book has been updated and reissued with a new afterword from the author and a new foreword by author and criminologist Elliott Leyton. A classic in the literature of true crime, Who Killed Ty Conn portrays a man coming to terms with a life of rejection - and the social system that failed to save him.
Linden MacIntyre is the author of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novel The Bishop's Man. He is also the author of the bestselling novel The Long Stretch, and a childhood memoir, Causeway, for which he won the Evelyn Richardson Prize and the Edna Staebler Award for Non-Fiction. When not writing, he is the host of Canada's best-known investigative television show, CBC's the fifth estate.
