Delivered from Evil: True Stories of Ordinary People Who Faced Monstrous Mass Killers and Survived by Franscell, Ron - 2011

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A 12-year-old boy cowers in his closet while a lunatic killer slaughters his family . . . a nursing student unwittingly opens her home to the serial killer on her front porch . . . an 11-year-old girl drifts alone at sea on a flimsy cork raft for almost four days after a mass murderer kills her vacationing family aboard a chartered yacht . . . a brave firefighter suddenly finds himself in the crosshairs of a racist sniper almost nine stories above the ground . . .

And, astonishingly, they all survived.

From Howard Unruh’s 1949 shooting rampage through a quiet New Jersey neighborhood to Louisiana serial killer Derrick Todd Lee’s reign of terror in 2002, the corpses piled up and few lived to tell the horror. Now, award-winning journalist Ron Franscell explores the wounded hearts and minds of the ordinary people these monsters couldn’t kill. His mesmerizing accounts crackle with gritty details that put the reader in the midst of the carnage—and offer a front-row seat on the complex, painful process of surviving the rest of their haunted lives. In intimate, gripping prose, Franscell takes the reader on a pulse-pounding dash through the murky intersection of pure evil and the potency of the human spirit. This journey into the darkest corners of the American crime-scape is a penetrating work of literary journalism by a writer hailed as one of the most powerful new voices in true crime.

Chapters (The perpetrater is in the parentheses):

1) Charles Cohen and the Insane Spree Killer (Howard Unruh)

2) Brent Doonan and the Atlanta Day-Trader Spree (Mark Barton)

3) Keith Thomas and the McDonalds's Massacre (James Huberty)

4) Suzanna Gratia Hupp and the Luby's Massacre (George Hennard)

5) Tim Ursin and the Howard Johnson's Sniper (Mark Essex)

6) Roland Ehlke and the Texas Tower Sniper (Charles Whitman

7) Dianne Alexander and the Serial Killer (Derrick Todd Lee)

8) Anthony Majzer and the Serial Killer (David Maust)

9) Missy Jenkins and the West Paducah High School Shooting (Michael Carneal)

10) Terry Jo Duperrault and the Bluebelle Murders ("Doc" Arthur Duperrault)

Most these crimes were gun violence crimes (many where the guns were unregistered), three of the crimes had their seeds in domestic violence involving family and spread out into the community from there, all the crimes were committed by men, most were public gun violence crimes in schools, restaurants, work places.