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Sympathy for the Devil: The Emmanuel Baptist Murders of Old San Francisco

Autor Virginia McConnell
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 sep 2001
On the day before Easter Sunday 1895, four women entered the Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Francisco's Mission District to decorate the altar with flowers. When they opened the door to the little room containing the library, they were greeted with a horrible sight: the stabbed and strangled body of 21-year-old Minnie Williams, her blood coating the floor and spattering the walls. A search of the church revealed another grisly discovery in the belfry: the decomposing body of another young woman, reported as missing ten days before. She, too, had been strangled. But unlike the victim in the library, Blanche Lamont was lovingly laid out as if for burial. Clues led the police to a friend of both victims, a medical student who was also the assistant superintendent of the church's Sunday school. But those who knew Theo Durrant denied that this highly respectable young man could have had anything to do with these horrible crimes.

The young man who committed these two apparently motiveless murders was depicted by the popular press at the time as a monster, a devil in disguise, only pretending to be religious. McConnell demonstrates that he was exactly what he seemed to be: a genuinely good man whose life went terribly wrong because of the biological, genetic, and mental problems from which he suffered -- problems he was not even aware of. Sympathy for the Devil examines the extensive and sensational press coverage of the case (criticized by the Governor and by the California Supreme Court), the effect of the murders on San Francisco, and also analyzes what turned an apparently upstanding young man into a vicious murderer.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780275970543
ISBN-10: 027597054X
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: bibliography
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction
In Plain Sight
Missing!
The Durrants of Toronto
The Little Quakeress
Holy Week Horrors
The Prince of City Prison
The Inquest, and a Trial by "Noose" Paper
Knee-deep in the Hoopla: The Road to Trial
The Case for the Prosecution
Theo Takes the Stand
"Mamma's Sweetheart": Appeals and an Execution
Killer Angel: Murder in the Emmanuel Baptist Church
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography