Mania and Marjorie DiehlArmstrong, Ed Palattella
Mania and Marjorie DiehlArmstrong, Ed Palattella
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Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong
Inside the Mind of a Female Serial Killer

Author: Ed Palattella, Jerry Clark

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Unabridged: 9 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/03/2017


Synopsis

Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, as “a coldly calculated criminal recidivist and serial killer.” She had experienced a lifetime of murder, mayhem, and mental illness. She killed two boyfriends, including one whose body was stuffed in a freezer. And she was convicted in one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s strangest cases: the Pizza Bomber case, in which a pizza deliveryman died when a bomb locked to his neck exploded after he robbed a bank in 2003 near Erie, Pennsylvania, Diehl-Armstrong’s hometown.

Diehl-Armstrong’s life unfolded in an enthralling portrait; a fascinating interplay between mental illness and the law. As a female serial killer, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong was in a rare category. In the early 1970s, she was a high-achieving graduate student pursuing a career in education but suffered from bipolar disorder. Before her death, she was sentenced to serve life plus thirty years in federal prison.

About Ed Palattella

Ed Palattella joined the Erie Times-News, in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1990. He has won a number of awards, including for his investigative work and his coverage of crime.


Reviews

Goodreads review by marissa sammy on May 06, 2018

Like many people I have a mild fascination with serial killers, so I figured from the title of this book that it would be an engaging portrait of Diehl-Armstrong's life, the factors that led her to become homicidal, that sort of thing. Instead, it was mostly disjointed quote snippets pieced together......more

Goodreads review by Maggie on December 18, 2017

This was tough. Brian Wells, one 0f Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong's victims, was a regular fixture in the lives of many families in my suburb outside of Erie, as he was our local pizza delivery man. The myth and reality of Marjorie shaped much of my late childhood and teenage years, as a young person fro......more

Goodreads review by Marietta on January 17, 2019

If you enjoy deep background on the history of mental illness in general, and on mania in murderers specifically, and on mania in female murderers to be exact - this is the book for you. As it happens, I was engrossed, and listened to many sections repeatedly. However, it's not your usual blow-by-bl......more