True Crime

The harsh discipline of Puritan life bred the hard-bitten and hard-working people of Massachusetts but did it also breed a unique type of criminal? This book explores the headline crimes of the state to find an answer. Included are the cases of the alleged ax-wielding Lizzie Borden the executed anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti the legendary Brink's robbery the mysterious Boston Strangler the Big Dan's spectator rape the desperate college professor who murdered a young prostitute and the fur salesman who slaughtered his wife and unborn child in cold blood.