Description
In *Fiend*, Harold Schechter examines the disturbing true story of Jesse Pomeroy, a fourteen-year-old whose brutal crimes terrorized Boston in the nineteenth century and made him one of America’s youngest known serial killers. Drawing on the era’s newspapers, court records, and social history, Schechter explores not only what happened but also the unanswered questions surrounding Pomeroy’s motives, upbringing, and apparent capacity for violence. The book offers a gripping portrait of a city confronting unimaginable crimes while revealing how Victorian ideas about childhood, punishment, and criminal responsibility shaped the case. Meticulously researched and unsettlingly vivid, it is both a true-crime narrative and a study of the darker corners of human behavior.
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paperback
Published Oct 3, 2000
320 pages
ISBN: 9780671014483
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Details
First Published
2000
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Fiend by Harold Schechter.