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4 produkter
- Nyhet
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
265 kr
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- Nyhet
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
221 kr
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- Nyhet
E-bok
Engelska, 202684 kr
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The Most Evil Person: Stephen Nash, the M'Naughton Rule, and American Justice On a November morning in 1956, a ten-year-old boy playing on a California beach accepted a stranger's offer of hamburgers and soft drinks. Within hours he was dead beneath the Santa Monica Pier, one of at least five confirmed victims of Stephen A. Nash, whose year-long campaign of violence across California exposed a fault line in American law that has never fully closed. When four independent psychiatrists examined Nash ahead of his 1957 trial, all four agreed he was driven by compulsive sexual sadism he could not restrain. All four were legally required to call him sane. This meticulously researched account traces Nash's path from a disrupted Bronx childhood through military discharge, a decade of escalating crime, and a killing spree that outran the era's psychiatric and investigative tools, into a courtroom confrontation between clinical psychiatry and nineteenth-century law that forced California's Supreme Court to choose between reform and precedent. Drawing on trial transcripts, psychiatric testimony, and appellate records, this is both a rigorous true crime narrative and a sobering legal history, the story of a man who understood exactly what he was doing, and a justice system built to ask the wrong question.
- Nyhet
E-bok
Engelska, 202684 kr
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On a black bridge over the Chattahoochee River, a surveillance officer hears a splash he cannot yet explain. Within minutes, a white station wagon crosses the water — and a case that has haunted Atlanta for nearly two years begins, at last, to break open.Between 1979 and 1981, the murders of nearly thirty Black children and young adults convulsed a city that had built its identity on racial progress. The Fiber and the River traces the full arc of the Atlanta Child Murders: the grassroots mothers' movement that forced a reluctant police department to act, the FBI profilers who began building a portrait before any suspect had a name, and the extraordinary forensic breakthrough — a single carpet fiber, traced through a manufacturing chain to one bedroom, with odds calculated at one in thirty million — that convicted Wayne Bertram Williams of two murders and closed twenty-two more without a single additional trial.Drawing on trial transcripts, GBI wiretap evidence, and the published doubts of the FBI's own profilers, this is a rigorously researched account that credits the science fully while refusing to look away from what it didn't settle. Families are still waiting. A river is still keeping secrets. The verdict, four decades on, has never stopped being argued.