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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders (originale 2009; edizione 2013)di Anthony Flacco
Informazioni sull'operaThe Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders di Anthony Flacco (2009)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Extremely disturbing yet also very inspirational. ( ) An Unexpected good read! I had this book on my kindle and it just said The Road out of Hell. I did notice that people who had read it liked it but that was all I knew. So I did not know it was about the Wineville Murders. I consider myself quite knowledgeable about true crime books but I had not heard about this crime. (To be honest I still have to check google to find out more. I of course did google but only searched the images, to worried I would lean the outcome.) Anyway so I did not know where this book was going. Back in the days I could "enjoy" a good abuse story but over the last few years I cannot read those books anymore. It must have been the writing that made me keep reading because if I read a book and the abuse takes too long and I can't stand it anymore, I quit. So glad I did not quit because it was such a good read. Now I must warn you do not read this book before you go to sleep because that was what I did and my heart started to race and my eyes were like an owl. Let me tell you, I could not stop reading and I think it was about 02.am that I finished reading. Now I am off to google. 4.5 stars I read this book quite some time ago so I don't remember if the writing or the story-telling was truly five-star-worthy, but the heroes were. One hero was young Sanford Clark who lived to tell the story. The other hero was the man who rescued him and, really, saved him, Loyal Kelley, the assistant district attorney for Los Angeles who prosecuted the case against Clark's uncle. Kelley determined that Clark was by no means any kind of willing participant in the crimes, and had him committed to a unique local facility which helped Clark recover from the depredations of his uncle. This is well worth reading simply because, for once, all the good guys win. This is much more the story of Sanford Clark than it is the story of the Wineville murders - not only is it told almost entirely from Sanford's point of view, it's written in a novelistic style, full of (presumably) invented dialogue and all. Not usually my favorite treatment of true crime, but this was handled well enough that I finished it anyway. I’ve always been a fan of true crime. I don’t review much of it, though, because there’s simply not much to say (in my opinion). I’ll try to find something to say, though. This story is the back-drop to the Angelina Jolie movie Changeling. It is believed that Gordon Stewart Northcott murdered or was somehow connected to the murder of Walter Collins, the child that is the focus of the movie Changeling. The Changeling connection has little to do with why I read this book. I found the story behind the movie to be interesting, and so when Amazon.com recommended this book to me, I jumped on the chance to read it. Sanford Clark’s story, as told by Anthony Flacco and Jerry Clark, was heartbreaking. Clark was raped repeatedly by Gordon Stewart Northcott. He was worked like a slave on Northcott’s property, and he was forced to bare witness to the countless and senseless murders of young boys at Northcott’s hands. Clark’s tale was gripping and fascinating. Anthony Flacco and Jerry Clark did a commendable job of telling this horrific story with accuracy and compassion. If you are a fan of true crime, I definitely recommend this book. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott committed at least 20 murders on a chicken ranch outside of Los Angeles. His nephew, Sanford Clark, was held captive there from the age of 13 to 15, and was the sole surviving victim of the killing spree. Here, acclaimed crime writer Anthony Flacco—using never-before-heard information from Sanford’s son Jerry Clark—tells the real story behind the case that riveted the nation. Forced by Northcott to take part in the murders, Sanford carried tremendous guilt all his life. Yet despite his youth and the trauma, he helped gain some justice for the dead and their families by testifying at Northcott’s trial–which led to his conviction and execution. It was a shocking story, but perhaps the most shocking part of all is the extraordinarily ordinary life Clark went on to live as a decorated WWII vet, a devoted husband of 55 years, a loving father, and a productive citizen. In dramatizing one of the darkest cases in American crime, Flacco constructs a riveting psychological drama about how Sanford was able to detoxify himself from the evil he’d encountered, offering the ultimately redemptive story of one man’s remarkable ability to survive a nightmare and emerge intact. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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