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Fiend

The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer

by Harold Schechter

ISBN: 067101448X
ISBN-13: 9780671014483
Format: Paperback

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Publisher: Pocket Books
Published date: 2000
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 0.85 pounds
Pages: 308

Publisher's Notes

A chilling portrait of America's youngest serial killer describes the shocking crime spree of young Jesse Pomeroy, arrested in 1874 for a vicious series of child abductions, tortures, and murders that terrorizzed nineteenth-century Boston. Original.

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