The Dead Alive written by Wilkie Collins in the 1870s is on the real-life wrongful conviction of Stephen and Jesse Boorn that happened in 1819 in the United States, in the state of Vermont. It shines a light on the failures of the legal system when it came to collecting forensic evidence. Some editions of this book might contain a detailed review of the 1819 Boorn case. Mine, however, only contains a short paragraph at the end about the Boorn case written by Wilkie Collins.