A review by teriboop
The Brick Slayer by Harold Schechter
4.0
This is the true-crime story of Robert Nixon, known as the Brick Slayer, a serial killer in the mid-1930s who killed a number of women in Los Angeles and Chicago by beating them with a brick. Nixon was a 19-year-old African American man who likely had a learning disability or at the very least was immature, homeless, and from a broken family. Schechter follows the story through newspaper articles and sheds some doubt on whether Nixon was the actually killer or was simply tortured by police into confessing to the murders.
It would be interesting to check DNA today to see if Nixon was the killer or not. Likely all evidence has since been destroyed, but Schechter makes a case for Nixon to possibly be innocent.
This is a quick read and is fun to read as a "Kindle in Motion" that should be read via the Kindle app on an iPad or Kindle Fire to check out the fun moving graphics at the beginning of the book.
It would be interesting to check DNA today to see if Nixon was the killer or not. Likely all evidence has since been destroyed, but Schechter makes a case for Nixon to possibly be innocent.
This is a quick read and is fun to read as a "Kindle in Motion" that should be read via the Kindle app on an iPad or Kindle Fire to check out the fun moving graphics at the beginning of the book.