Isbn: 9781091599017 - predator: rape and injustice in seattle (16 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Jack Olsen, the master of the true crime, provides an incisive, probing look into the creation and development of the criminal mind, as well as a shocking case of injustice. From early childhood, McDonald Smith took to heart the lessons drummed into him by antisocial relatives and peers. As a teenager, unburdened by conscience or pity, he experimented with child abuse and bestiality, then moved on to larceny, stickups, incest, and finally, rape. After a witch warned Smith that he was about to be arrested, he fled Los Angeles for Seattle, which was already the breeding ground of serial rapist and killers like Ted Bundy, Kenneth Bianchi, and the Green River Killer. For years Smith stalked the women of Seattle, seeking his prey on the dark streets and in the quiet homes, before returning to his wife and family. Meanwhile, a respectable young businessperson named Steve Titus found himself charged with one of Smith's most sadistic rapes in a nightmarish case of mistaken identity and injustice. The idealistic Titus was certain that the American system of justice would clear him -- right up to the day that a jury of his peers returned a verdict of guilty. As Mac Smith continued to terrorize the women of Seattle, Steve Titus lost everything: his reputation, his job, his loved ones, his freedom and eventually his life. It was only when a Pulitzer prize-winning Seattle Times reporter answered Titus's pleas for justice that the terrible truth emerged: a truth that was darker than anyone imagined. PREDATOR is a gripping work of true crime reporting: Jack Olsen doing what he does best. It is a searing study of violations: of women, of justice, of power, and of the human spirit.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Winner of the American Mystery Award for Best True Crime, from two-time Edgar Award winner Jack Olsen, known as "the dean of true crime." For more than a decade, a serial rapist moved through the suburbs of Seattle. He was outwardly ordinary: steady job, regular churchgoer, polite and unremarkable to everyone around him. He would eventually confess to more than fifty rapes. Police departments, working in isolation, never connected the pattern. Every attack was treated as a standalone incident. Every victim faced disbelief. The predator kept hunting. Then Steve Titus was arrested. Titus was thirty years old, a respectable seafood sales executive with no criminal record. He bore a passing resemblance to the rapist, drove a vaguely similar car, and that was enough. A Port of Seattle detective saw a career opportunity in the case and manipulated evidence to secure a conviction. The real rapist was still out there. Titus was found guilty and faced life in prison. He was certain the system would correct itself. It didn't. It was only when a Seattle Times reporter named Paul Henderson took up Titus's case that the truth began to emerge. Henderson's relentless investigation won him the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and ultimately freed an innocent man. But the victory came too late. The years of wrongful conviction had destroyed Titus's career, his relationships, and his health. Before his civil lawsuit against the police could reach trial, Steve Titus died of a heart attack. He was thirty-five years old. Jack Olsen reconstructs both stories with his signature precision and compassion: the predator who was enabled by institutional failure and a culture that dismissed women's testimony, and the innocent man ground up by a system that couldn't admit its mistake. Predator is a searing account of two injustices committed in the same city, at the same time, by the same broken system. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …