Mad City, Michael Arntfield
Mad City, Michael Arntfield
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Mad City
The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot

Author: Michael Arntfield

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Unabridged: 13 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 10/01/2017

Synopsis

An Amazon Charts most-read book.Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot is a chilling, unflinching exploration of American crimes of the twentieth century and how one serial killer managed to slip through the cracks—until now.In fall 1967, friends Linda Tomaszewski and Christine Rothschild are freshmen at the University of Wisconsin. The students in the hippie college town of Madison are letting down their hair—and their guards. But amid the peace rallies lurks a killer.When Christine’s body is found, her murder sends shockwaves across college campuses, and the Age of Aquarius gives way to a decade of terror.Linda knows the killer, but when police ignore her pleas, he slips away. For the next forty years, Linda embarks on a cross-country quest to find him. When she discovers a book written by the murderer’s mother, she learns Christine was not his first victim—or his last. The slayings continue, and a single perpetrator emerges: the Capital City Killer. As police focus on this new lead, Linda receives a disturbing note from the madman himself. Can she stop him before he kills again?

About Michael Arntfield

Bestselling author Michael Arntfield is a veteran police officer, professor, and television host. Known by his students as “Profficer,” an endearing blend of his academic and law enforcement professions, he teaches criminology at Western University and is a previous visiting Fulbright Chair at Vanderbilt University. With fifteen years of experience as a police officer, Arntfield offers a unique perspective into unsolved murder cases that combines suspenseful storytelling, academic knowledge, and investigative technology. He is the lead investigator on the true-crime series To Catch a Killer on the Oprah Winfrey Network in Canada and is the author of Murder City: The Untold Story of Canada’s Serial Killer Capital. He is also Director of the Murder Accountability Project in the United States and both the founder and Director of the Western University Cold Case Society in Canada.When he isn’t teaching, investigating cold cases, or writing about them, he is researching long-term crime trends and developing new television projects. His latest research is on cyberbullying, social media, and psychopathy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joey

Felt like I was reading a rough draft! I came up with a 3- star rating the following way: 5 stars--the amount of research done for this book is amazing -- Also, the author's knowledge of the subject matter and access to information is as good as a non-fiction book gets.... 1 star-- in school when I wou......more

Goodreads review by Fishface

This was a very interesting story -- VERY interesting -- but I couldn't give it more than 3 stars because the writing really needed work. The story was well constructed and edited well, unlike so many books out there today, but nobody's ever told this author about the importance of keeping his sente......more

Goodreads review by Linda

Fascinating Not written to be entertaining, but educational. Nevertheless, it was hard to put down. An eye-opening, decades-long journey in search of justice for a friend, thoroughly researched and documented.......more

Goodreads review by Tricia Gruen

Fascinating history As a UW grad growing up in Madison I was shocked to learn of the events of this book. It was well written and well researched and made me realize how little we were able to learn about crime in our own home town before the age of social media, and aggressive journalism. I would re......more

Quotes

“Arntfield presents his murder case as ‘perhaps the greatest story never told in American history, at least the history of American crime.’” —New York Times Book Review “All of the stories are fascinating, especially the aspects of criminal profiling in them…Fans of TV shows like Criminal Minds and CSI, especially, will be intrigued.” —Kirkus Reviews “Thrilling.…Ranks among the most important books to rise from the dust of the true-crime explosion.” —M. William Phelps, host of Dark Minds and New York Times bestselling true-crime author

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