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Featured on Fox News and Univision and selected as Larry Kings Book of the Week, this is the harrowing true story of an American held in a Nicaraguan prison for a murder he didnt commit.
In 2005, Eric Volz moved from California to Nicaragua. Volz met Doris Jiménez, a beauty from a small beach town, and they began a passionate relationship. The relationship ended amicably less than a year later, and Volz moved to the capital city of Managua.
In 2006, Doris was found murdered in her seaside boutique. He rushed from Managua to be with her family, but before he knew it, he found himself accused of the crime. Decried in the press and vilified by his onetime friends, Volz suffered horrific prison conditions, deadly inmates, sadistic guards, an angry lynch mob, and the merciless treatment of government officials. He soon found himself a pawn in an international arms deal. It was only through his persistence, the tireless support of friends and family, and the assistance of a former intelligence operative that Eric was released, after more than a year in prison.
A story that made national and international headlines, this is the only book to tell Erics absorbing, moving account in his own words.
Visit the companion Exhibit Hall at the Gringo Nightmare website for additional photos, audio clips, video, case file, and more.
Review
“This story should be issued with every passport.”
---from the foreword by Bill Kurtis, author of The Death Penalty on Trial and host of A&Es Cold Case Files
“A powerful story of injustice, iron determination, and incomprehensible strength. Proof that wrongful convictions can happen anywhere, at anytime, to anyone.”
---Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, coauthors of the New York Times bestselling Picking Cotton
“Gringo Nightmare is a brave and riveting account of a young man wrongfully imprisoned, offering insight into the history, politics, and geography of a nation. Its major motion picture material.”
---Elizabeth F. Loftus, Ph.D., coauthor of Witness for the Defense and The Myth of Repressed Memory
“A chilling tale of how political pressure and a rigged judicial process led to the conviction of an innocent man, and a powerful story of how one mans faith in the truth, combined with grassroots pressure from people around the world who had never met Eric Volz, eventually helped to end an unjust imprisonment.”
---KC Johnson, coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Until Proven Innocent
Review
“This story should be issued with every passport.”
---from the foreword by Bill Kurtis, author of The Death Penalty on Trial and host of A&Es Cold Case Files
“A powerful story of injustice, iron determination, and incomprehensible strength. Proof that wrongful convictions can happen anywhere, at anytime, to anyone.”
---Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, coauthors of the New York Times bestselling Picking Cotton
“Gringo Nightmare is a brave and riveting account of a young man wrongfully imprisoned, offering insight into the history, politics, and geography of a nation. Its major motion picture material.”
---Elizabeth F. Loftus, Ph.D., coauthor of Witness for the Defense and The Myth of Repressed Memory
“A chilling tale of how political pressure and a rigged judicial process led to the conviction of an innocent man, and a powerful story of how one mans faith in the truth, combined with grassroots pressure from people around the world who had never met Eric Volz, eventually helped to end an unjust imprisonment.”
---KC Johnson, coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Until Proven Innocent
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Review
“This story should be issued with every passport.” —Bill Kurtis, author of The Death Penalty on Trial and host of A&Es Cold Case Files
“A powerful story of injustice, iron determination and incomprehensible strength.” —Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, authors of the New York Times bestselling Picking Cotton
“A brave and riveting account." —Elizabeth F. Loftus, PhD, co-author of Witness for the Defense and The Myth of Repressed Memory
“A tough tale of survival against long odds…. Nothing short of harrowing.”—Outside
Synopsis
A story that made international headlines, "Gringo Nightmare" is the harrowing true account by an American man who was held in a Nicaraguan prison accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Synopsis
Featured on Fox News and Univision and selected as Larry Kings Book of the Week, this is the harrowing true story of an American held in a Nicaraguan prison for a murder he didnt commit.
In 2005, Eric Volz moved from California to Nicaragua. Volz met Doris Jiménez, a beauty from a small beach town, and they began a passionate relationship. The relationship ended amicably less than a year later, and Volz moved to the capital city of Managua.
In 2006, Doris was found murdered in her seaside boutique. He rushed from Managua to be with her family, but before he knew it, he found himself accused of the crime. Decried in the press and vilified by his onetime friends, Volz suffered horrific prison conditions, deadly inmates, sadistic guards, an angry lynch mob, and the merciless treatment of government officials. He soon found himself a pawn in an international arms deal. It was only through his persistence, the tireless support of friends and family, and the assistance of a former intelligence operative that Eric was released, after more than a year in prison.
A story that made national and international headlines, this is the only book to tell Erics absorbing, moving account in his own words.
Visit the companion Exhibit Hall at GringoNightmare.com for additional photos, audio clips, video, case file, and more.
About the Author
ERIC VOLZ was born in Northern California. He is a former magazine publisher and investment consultant, who holds a degree in Latin American Studies from the University of California, San Diego.
In November 2006, while living in Nicaragua, he was falsely accused and wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of his ex-girlfriend Doris Jiménez, and consequently sentenced to a 30-year prison term. After spending over a year in the Nicaraguan Prison system, an appeals court overturned the conviction and Volz was released in December of 2007.
Since his release, Volz filed a petition in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States, seeking a declaration of his innocence and protection under the American Convention on Human Rights from further persecution by the Government of Nicaragua. Although he is no longer behind bars, his case continues to test the role and authority of a supra-national tribunal with major potential to engage international policy discussions and subsequent reform.
He has been a guest on and featured in The Today Show, CNN, NBC News, PBS, Telemundo and Univision, New York Times, Washington Post, WSJ, People and NPR.