Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster by Harold Schechter

Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster

Harold Schechter

368 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime dark slow-paced

Description

From the author of 'Depraved' and 'Deviant', 'Bestial' is the dark journey into the mind of an unrepentant sadist. In the winter of 1926 Earle Leonard Nelson erupted into a 16 month long frenzy of savage rape, barbaric murder and blood lust.

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