Fiend, Harold Schechter
Fiend, Harold Schechter
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Fiend
The Shocking True Story Of America's Youngest Serial Killer

Author: Harold Schechter

Narrator: Kyle Tait

Unabridged: 11 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/29/2019


Synopsis

A monster preyed upon the children of nineteenth-century Boston. His crimes were appalling—and yet he was little more than a child himself.

When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree—the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime—were as relevant in the so-called Age of Innocence as they are today.

Jesse Pomeroy was outwardly repellent in appearance, with a gruesome "dead" eye; inside, he was deformed beyond imagining. A sexual sadist of disturbing precocity, he satisfied his atrocious appetites by abducting and torturing his child victims. But soon, the teenager's bloodlust gave way to another obsession: murder.

Harold Schechter, whose true-crime masterpieces are "well-documented nightmares for anyone who dares to look" (Peoria Journal Star), brings his acclaimed mix of compelling storytelling, brilliant insight, and fascinating historical documentation to Fiend—an unforgettable account from the annals of American crime.

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Reviews

Goodreads review by Juanita

This book was a complete page turner until its mid-section. Although the newspaper article of the time were necessary for one to fully understand the era, the constant reports of how the people of the era felt got to be a little too redundant. In fact, I stopped reading the book for a while because......more

Goodreads review by Brad

Harold Schechter really is at the top of the true crime game. Not only is he a solid writer, but he is also something of a true crime "historian." He reads less like a tabloid reporter (which is the way of most true crime authors I've read) than a professor taking a serious look at killers and their......more