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Deadly Lust VERNON, MCCAY
Pinnacle Books 2005 078601699X / 9780786016990
Good , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. From Booklist A brutal sex and murder spree beset St. Augustine, Florida, from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s, ending with the apprehension of William Darrell Lindsey, who had traveled the South, raping and killing young women with gusto. He confessed to seven murders but is believed to be responsible for several more. Forensic psychologist McCay Vernon and journalist Marie Vernon tell Lindsey's story in stark detail and, by introducing the victims and their families before turning to Lindsey, allow it to creep up on readers like the serial killer's existence crept up on authorities. Lindsey's preference in victims--prostitutes, many of them addicts--greatly aided his elusiveness. When a crackhead streetwalker went missing, it wasn't always noticed right away--hey, those girls got in strange cars all the time. Still, the Vernons' portraits of loving families left behind and their harrowing stories of how the victims entered the netherworld of crack and paid sex evoke real sympathy. A fine true-crime thriller, heinous and bloody and awfully well told. Mike Tribby Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Product Description Throughout its long and colourful history, St. Augustine, Florida has been home to pirates and villains, marauders and despots. But it wasn't until the late 1980s that the city's red-light district, known locally as Crack Head Corner, became the hunting ground for a serial killer whose brutality knew no bounds. On November 29, 1988, Anita Stevens, 27, climbed into a stranger's vehicle, thinking to turn a quick trick to fund her drug habit. She was the first to die. Over the next six years, six more prostitutes would fall victim to the same phantom killer, slain by gun, blunt objects, a strangler's noose - and the murderer's bare hands. His signature was the obscene poses in which he arranged his half-nude victims. Frustrated by false confessions, investigators sifted through a myriad of suspects until a Christmas Eve, 1996 murder in Asheville, North Carolina led them to the real killer: William Darrell Lindsey. Twice-married, a father of five, Lindsey had drifted across the South for years. Wherever he went, rape and murder followed. He admitted to seven sex slayings, but experts believe that the death toll was somewhere between twelve and twenty. Here is the chilling true story of a fiend whose sadistic lust was the most depraved addiction of all.
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