Depraved: The Shocking True Story Of America's First Serial Killer by Harold Schechter

Depraved: The Shocking True Story Of America's First Serial Killer

Harold Schechter

418 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction biography history true crime dark informative mysterious medium-paced
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Even as a child in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, Herman Mudgett was considered a lad with a future, a boy who professed filial devotion while secretly fantasizing his parents' deaths. By age eleven he was conducting secret experiments on small animals...

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