The limits of sanity

By Larry Still

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713806508
• ISBN13: 9780713806502
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Bles
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

SANITY??? this guy makes Eddie Gein look like a cook!!!

This is the story of one named Dale Merle Nelson. The blab goes like this: "Without premeditation, a man murders eight of his neighbours...by due process of law is judged sane." Canadian logger, reportedly under the influence of LSD, who murdered eight of his neighbours - including one man, two women, and five children - in a wild crime spree during September 1970. Bizarre acts of mutilation, necrophilia, and cannibalism were inflicted upon the bodies of two female victims before Nelson was captured. (In one case, he opened the child victim's stomach with a knife, thrust his face inside, and devoured recently-ingested food.) Deemed sane by state psychiatrists, Nelson was convicted on two counts of murder in 1971 and was sentenced to life. The main focus of the book is around the fact of attacking the standards for judging legal sanity and condemns the court system for handling Nelson as a rational and competent defendant. I am not aware of any other book devoted solely to this case study apart from brief mention in encyclopaedic format books. This book is not for the squeamish.