Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me comes a true crime story of a serial killer who was sentenced to die--yet lived to murder again....and again....
After committing his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death, using want ads to lure his young female victims. And time after time, justice was thwarted by a killer whose twisted legal genius was matched only by his sick savagery. Complete with the testimony of the officers who put him behind bars and the women who barely escaped with their lives, The Want-Ad Killer is one of the most shattering and thought-provoking true-crime stories of our time.
Author: Ann Rule
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 09/01/1983
Pages: 286
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.89h x 4.20w x 0.83d
ISBN13: 9780451166883
ISBN10: 0451166884
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | Murder | Serial Killers
- Social Science | Criminology
- Social Science | Violence in Society
After committing his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death, using want ads to lure his young female victims. And time after time, justice was thwarted by a killer whose twisted legal genius was matched only by his sick savagery. Complete with the testimony of the officers who put him behind bars and the women who barely escaped with their lives, The Want-Ad Killer is one of the most shattering and thought-provoking true-crime stories of our time.
Author: Ann Rule
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 09/01/1983
Pages: 286
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.89h x 4.20w x 0.83d
ISBN13: 9780451166883
ISBN10: 0451166884
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | Murder | Serial Killers
- Social Science | Criminology
- Social Science | Violence in Society
About the Author
Ann Rule wrote thirty-five New York Times bestsellers. Her first bestseller was The Stranger Beside Me, about her personal relationship with infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. A former Seattle police officer, she used her firsthand expertise in all her books. For more than three decades, she was a powerful advocate for victims of violent crime. She lived near Seattle and passed away in 2015.