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    Killing Season: The Unsolved Case of New England's Deadliest Serial Killer
    Killing Season: The Unsolved Case of New England's Deadliest Serial Killer
    Killing Season: The Unsolved Case of New England's Deadliest Serial Killer
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    Killing Season: The Unsolved Case of New England's Deadliest Serial Killer

    Written by Carlton Smith

    Narrated by John Glouchevitch

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    A New York Times–bestselling journalist traces a string of unsolved murders—and the botched investigation that let the New Bedford Highway Killer walk away.

    Over the course of seven months in 1988, eleven women disappeared off the streets of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a gloomy, drug-addled coastal town that was once the whaling capital of the world. Nine turned up dead. Two were never found. And the perpetrator remains unknown to this day.

    How could such a thing happen? How, in what was once one of America's richest cities, could the authorities let their most vulnerable citizens down this badly? As Carlton Smith, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his coverage of the Green River Killer case, demonstrates in this riveting account, it was the inability of police officers and politicians alike to set aside their personal agendas that let a psychopath off the hook.

    In Killing Season, Smith takes readers into a close-knit community of working-class men and women, an underworld of prostitution and drug abuse, and the halls of New England law enforcement to tell the story of an epic failure of justice.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateAug 27, 2019
    ISBN9781978658288
    Author

    Carlton Smith

    Carlton Smith (1947-2011) was the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Search for the Green River Killer: The True Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer with Tomás Guillén, about the crimes of Gary Ridgway. They were Pulitzer Prize finalists in 1988 for their investigative reporting on the case. An award-winning journalist for The Los Angeles Times and The Seattle Times during the 1970s and 1980s, Carlton was also the author of the true crime books Blood Money: The Du Pont Heir and the Murder of an Olympic Athlete and Reckless: Millionaire Record Producer Phil Spector and the Violent Death of Lana Clarkson, among many others.

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    • 4/5
      The book was interesting, well written, and well researched which results in to a long-drawn-out set of facts. It is too bad that they could not pin down a murder suspect. The narration was excellent.
    • 3/5
      Okay. I kept waiting for something to happen.