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BestialHarold Schechter

Bestial

1998384 pages
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FROM SOCIAL OUTCAST TO NECROPHILE AND MURDERER -- HIS APPALLING CRIMES STUNNED AN ERA. San Francisco, the 1920s. In an age when nightmares were relegated to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and distant tales of the Whitechapel murders, a real-life monster terrorized America. His acts of butchery have proved him one of history's fiercest madmen. As an infant, Earle Leonard Nelson possessed the power to unsettle his elders. As a child he was unnaturally obsessed with the Bible; before he reached puberty, he had an insatiable, aberrant sex drive. By his teens, even Earle's own family had reason to…

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4 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2004
    Pocket Star · 384 pages · 9780743483353
  • Paperback · English · 1999
    Pocket · 352 pages · 9780671732189
  • Paperback · English · 1998
    Pocket · 384 pages · 9780671732196
  • Other · English · 2008
    Simon & Schuster, Limited · 9781439117309
Serial murderersSerial murdersCriminals, biography