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A Stranger in the Family: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and Unconditional
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A Stranger in the Family: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and Unconditional Love Mass market paperbound - 1996

by Steven Naifeh; Gregory White Smith

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In the late 1980s, residents of Georgia and South Carolina were terrorized by a vicious serial rapist and murderer. Unlike most serial killers, who are usually anti-social loners, this killer turned out to be Richard Daniel Starrett, a popular and well-respected "golden boy" from a perfect Southern family. Naifeh and Smith not only give harrowing details of this serial criminal, but also offer troubling insight into the psychology of the American family.

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Who would ever connect this handsome, charming, straight-arrow son of a perfect all-American family with the gruesome crimes of a serial killer? Richard Daniel Starrett was the dangerous visitor for too many unlucky young women in Georgia and South Carolina in the late 1980s. Answering "for sale" ads in the classifieds, he was a buyer hunting for victims, not bargains, and he paid in grim coin: rape, kidnapping, murder.

Because of his articulate intelligence and prestigious job, no one suspected this "golden boy" of such heinous acts. This gripping, intimately detailed account by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors probes every tortured thought and twisted urge of a "boy-next-door murderer"--as well as the dynamics of the model family that shaped him. The result is both a stunning portrait of a diseased mind and the moving story of a loving family's emotional nightmare and painful disintegration.

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JUNE 24, 1988. Julia Hansen tooted her horn a second time and waited for her daughter, Susie, to come out of the house.

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  • Title A Stranger in the Family: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and Unconditional Love
  • Author Steven Naifeh; Gregory White Smith
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berkley Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date May 1, 1996
  • ISBN 9780451406224 / 0451406222
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.83 x 4.18 x 1.08 in (17.35 x 10.62 x 2.74 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category True Crime / Espionage
  • Library of Congress subjects Rape - United States, Serial murders - United States
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.152

About the author

Steven Naifeh is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Mr. Naifeh, who has written for art periodicals and has lectured at numerous museums including the National Gallery of Art, studied art history at Princeton and did his graduate work at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University. He has written many books on art and other subjects, including four New York Times bestsellers. His biography Jackson Pollock: An American Saga won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. It also inspired the Academy Award-winning 2000 film Pollock, starring Ed Harris and Marcia Gay Harden, as well as John Updike's novel, Seek My Face.

Gregory White Smith is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Smith has been profiled in The New Yorker, The New York Times, USA Today, and People, and have appeared on 60 Minutes, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, Charlie Rose, and the Today show.

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