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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marilee Strong; Mark Powelson |
| ISBN: | 9780787996390 0787996394 9780470442524 : 0470442522 |
| OCLC Number: | 174040215 |
| Description: | viii, 337 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Crime without a name -- Part 1: Eraser Killing: The History And Psychology Of A New Criminal Profile -- 1: Out of the shadows -- 2: Dark triad -- 3: Real American tragedy -- Part 2: Getting Away With Murder -- 4: Lady-killer -- 5: Disappearing acts -- 6: Hiding in plain sight -- 7: Pregnant and vulnerable: when a child is seen as a threat -- Part 3: Psychological Autopsy Of A Classic Eraser Killing -- 8: Watery grave -- 9: Keeping secrets -- 10: Too good to be true -- 11: Seeds of a plan -- 12: Collision course -- 13: Sex, lies, and audiotape -- Conclusion: Fixing a broken system -- Bibliographical sources -- About the authors -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | Marilee Strong ; with Mark Powelson. |
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Abstract:
Product Description: Based on five years of investigative reporting and research into forensic psychology and criminology, Erased presents an original profile of a widespread and previously unrecognized type of murder: not a "hot-blooded," spur-of-the-moment crime of passion, as domestic homicide is commonly viewed, but a cold-blooded, carefully planned and methodically executed form of "erasure." These crimes are often committed by men with no criminal record or history of violence whatsoever, men leading functional and often successful lives until the moment they kill the women, and sometimes children, they claimed to love. A surprising number go on to kill a second or even third wife or girlfriend, often in exactly the same way. In more than fifty chilling case studies, Marilee Strong examines the strange and complex psychology that drives these killers-from the murder a century ago that inspired the novel An American Tragedy to Scott Peterson, Mark Hacking, Jeffrey MacDonald, Ira Einhorn, Charles Stuart, Robert Durst, Michael White, Barton Corbin, and many others. Erased also looks at how these men manipulate the legal system and exploit loopholes in missing persons procedures and death investigation, exposing how easy it can be to get away with murder.
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