Fiend: The Shocking True Story Of America's Youngest Serial Killer
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A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF.
When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree -- the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime -- were as relevant in the so-called Age of Innocence as they are today.
Jesse Pomeroy was outwardly repellent in appearance, with a gruesome "dead" eye; inside, he was deformed beyon
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Manufacturer: Gallery Books
Release date: 1 October 2000
ISBN-10 : 067101448X | ISBN-13: 0076714011496
Release date: 1 October 2000
ISBN-10 : 067101448X | ISBN-13: 0076714011496
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