Child's Prey

By Jon Bellini

Book Overview

School Slaughter At 8 a.m. on Wednesday, October 1, 1997, nerdy, overweight outcast Luke Woodham, 16, entered his Pearl, Mississippi high school to settle some scores. Armed with a .30-30 hunting rifle, he opened fire and then calmly walked out of the school door, leaving two teenage girls dead and another seven students seriously wounded. Police soon discovered that Woodham's 11-minute rampage had actually begun hours before at home, where they found his mother, Mary Anne, brutally beaten with a baseball bat and then stabbed to death. Evil Cult Luke Woodham may have been the assassin, but behind his horrifying act lay the shadowy hand of a twisted mastermind. Grant Boyette, 18, Bible student-turned-Hitler-lover and devil-worshipper, was a diabolical Pied Piper who used a fantasy role-playing game to program six high school students with hate, Satanism, and animal torture. "Murder Is Gutsy And Daring." Those were the chilling words of Luke Woodham, now serving three consecutive life sentences. The horror he unleashed serves as a disturbing reminder of today's shocking epidemic of high school shootings, and that the one place America's kids are supposed to be safe has become the most dangerous place of all. 16 Pages Of Shocking Photos

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786022256
• ISBN13: 9780786022250
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Pinnacle Books
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Interesting Case

I liked the book for the most part. There is a chapter about animal violence so I did skip the chapter. But other then that it was interesting. I would recommend a book called, 'Slow Death' it is also a true story very well written.

Before Littleton, there was Pearl.

Before Littleton, Colorado, there was Pearl, Mississippi--this is the high school murder rampage that started it all.This book is amazing. It's hard to believe kids can even think like this. It's hard to believe parents don't see this. It's hard to believe that it could have be any one of us or any one of our kids. A shocking wake-up call.