| A Stranger in the Family: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and Unconditional Love Contributor(s): Naifeh, Steven (Author), Smith, Gregory White (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0451406222 ISBN-13: 9780451406224 Publisher: Berkley Books OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound Published: May 1996 Annotation: In the late 1980s, residents of Georgia and South Carolina were terrorized by a vicious serial rapist and murderer. Unlike most serial killers, who are usually anti-social loners, this killer turned out to be Richard Daniel Starrett, a popular and well-respected "golden boy" from a perfect Southern family. Naifeh and Smith not only give harrowing details of this serial criminal, but also offer troubling insight into the psychology of the American family. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General - Social Science | Sexual Abuse & Harassment - Social Science | Violence In Society |
| Dewey: 364.152 |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 4.18" W x 6.83" (0.43 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Who would ever connect this handsome, charming, straight-arrow son of a perfect all-American family with the gruesome crimes of a serial killer? Richard Daniel Starrett was the dangerous visitor for too many unlucky young women in Georgia and South Carolina in the late 1980s. Answering "for sale" ads in the classifieds, he was a buyer hunting for victims, not bargains, and he paid in grim coin: rape, kidnapping, murder. Because of his articulate intelligence and prestigious job, no one suspected this "golden boy" of such heinous acts. This gripping, intimately detailed account by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors probes every tortured thought and twisted urge of a "boy-next-door murderer"--as well as the dynamics of the model family that shaped him. The result is both a stunning portrait of a diseased mind and the moving story of a loving family's emotional nightmare and painful disintegration. |