92nd Y LIVE: The New York Times’ Pamela Colloff talks to author David Grann about the true story of a con man who helped send another man to death row for a murder he did not commit & her new account, Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast. For more than 3 decades, Paul Skalnik roamed the Gulf Coast, lying about who he was.

He passed himself off as a fighter pilot, an oilman, a criminal defense attorney, an undercover agent, & a terminal cancer patient. He married nine women: some at the same time & helped land a man on death row for murder. But who really committed the killing? Based on years of reporting and interviews with Skalnik himself, Colloff spins a dark tale of a remorseless & brilliant liar made lethal by a system more concerned with winning convictions than finding the truth.