Killer Dads: The Twisted Drives that Compel Fathers to Murder Their Own Kids

by Mary Papenfuss

Book Overview

No crime is as horrific, as mesmerizingly perplexing, as a child's murder at the hands of a parent. In most cases, the perpetrator is the father. Veteran journalist Mary Papenfuss explores five examples of "family annihilators" in this troubling snapshot of American crime twisted by the dark trajectory of machismo in economically stressful times. Her research includes some fifty in-depth interviews of victims' friends and family, an examination of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616147431
• ISBN13: 9781616147433
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"