About The Book:
Damned to Eternity: The Story of the Man Who They Said Caused the Flood was published in 2007, but this case will be in the news over the next several months.
James Scott was twenty-four years old when he was first convicted in 1994 and then again in 1998 of intentionally causing a catastrophe.
His alleged crime was causing a levee to break, which flooded over 14,000 acres of farmland during the Great Midwestern Floods of ’93.
Though no one died, he was the first and only person in Missouri history convicted under this obscure 1979 law and is now serving a life sentence.
He won’t be eligible for his first parole hearing until 2023. He will be fifty-five years old. (He didn’t get paroled).
In Damned to Eternity, Adam Pitluk contends that James Scott was a victim of a federal agency, a town, and law enforcement hell-bent on blaming him for something he maintains he didn’t do.
This ABC Books author interview was broadcast on KSGF Mornings with Nick Reed on Thursday, May 09, 2024.
