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A fatal collision of three lives in the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood.
W. W. Norton
April 2006
320 pages ISBN: 0393059804 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont,
Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking sex murder that
exactly fits the pattern of the Boston Strangler. Sensing a
break in the case that has paralyzed the city of Boston, the
police track down a black man, Roy Smith, who cleaned the
victim's house that day and left a receipt with his name on
the kitchen counter. Smith is hastily convicted of the
Belmont murder, but the terror of the Strangler
continues.
On the day of the murder, Albert
DeSalvo -- the man who would eventually confess in lurid detail
to the Strangler's crimes -- is also in Belmont, working as a
carpenter at the Jungers' home. In this spare, powerful
narrative, Sebastian Junger chronicles three lives that
collide -- and ultimately are destroyed -- in the vortex of
one of
the first and most controversial serial murder cases in America.
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