Night Terrors: The True Story of the Kingsgrove Slasher Contributor(s): Humphries, Glen (Author) |
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ISBN: 064803237X ISBN-13: 9780648032373 Publisher: Last Day of School OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Sexual Assault - History | Australia & New Zealand - General |
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 260 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Australian - Cultural Region - Oceania |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "Could you estimate the number of houses and backyards you have unlawfully entered?" - The Kingsgrove Slasher's police questioning Between 1956 and 1959, suburban Sydney was terrorised by a phantom known as the Kingsgrove Slasher. A peeping Tom, he graduated to breaking into houses to watch people sleep before later slashing women and girls with a razor while they lay in their beds. He punched a 21-year-old woman into unconsciousness, breaking her teeth and cutting her mouth, hit a teenage girl in the face with a piece of wood and slashed a deep wound across the stomach of a 64-year-old woman. The Slasher also groped teens in their beds, and one of his 18 victims was just seven years old. Night Terrors is the first detailed account of the Kingsgrove Slasher case. It draws on hundreds of newspaper articles written at the time - which show the level of fear in the community - as well as the transcripts from the court hearings, which had been sealed since 1959. The result is a true-crime book that might make it hard for you to go to sleep at night. |