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Raised by a serial killer : discovering the truth about my father / April Balascio.
Van Pelt Library HV6248.E39 B35 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balascio, April, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Edwards, Edward, 1933-2011.
- Edwards, Edward.
- Serial murderers--United States--Biography.
- Serial murderers.
- Serial murders--United States--Case studies.
- Serial murders.
- Serial murder investigation--United States.
- Serial murder investigation.
- Balascio, April.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- True crime stories.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 339 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
- Other Title:
- Discovering the truth about my father
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Gallery Books, 2024.
- Summary:
- "One evening in 2009, April Balascio was searching online, as she had been every night, for unsolved murders in the towns her family had lived growing up, when she stumbled across the latest investigations into the "Sweetheart Murders" cold case. All at once, the buried memories of her father's dark history were awakened, and she knew she had to take action. She picked up the phone to call a detective and the rest is infamous true crime history. In her unflinching memoir, Balascio bravely reveals an astonishing tale of a lifetime of manipulation, unexplained upheavals, and silent fear. Some part of her had always known what her father was capable of, but the full truth of how she came to these revelations is as riveting as it is quietly terrifying. Through searing storytelling, dedicated research, and intimate insight, Raised by a Serial Killer is a gripping, courageous memoir unlike any other"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Author's note/disclaimer
- Preface
- Part one
- How he met my mother 1968
- Bend every bone 1970
- "Sister, I'm gonna be a crook" 1933-1948
- To Tell the Truth 1972
- The farm on Taylor Road 1974
- Paradise lost 1975
- Practical joker 1976
- Self-defense 1977
- Billy, Summer 1977
- Boogeyman 1978
- The Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio 1950-1952
- Florida hustle 1978
- Jump scare 1978-1979
- Verna 1954
- Westward expansion 1979
- Part two
- The Concord house 1980
- Most Wanted 1956-1960
- Veil lifted 1980
- Catch Me If You Can 1960
- Grifter 1981
- Arsonist 1982
- Rebirth 1962-1967
- This is who you are 1982
- Trial 1982
- Freedom 1982-1985
- Darkness 1985
- On my own 1985-1986
- Part three
- Checklist 1987-1991
- Marriage, motherhood, and murder 1991-1996
- Deal with it 1997-2009
- Kelly and Tim 2009
- Billy and Judith 2010
- Dannie Boy 2010
- Part four
- Mythology of a criminal 2010
- The Clearing 2016-2019
- Great Falls, Montana 1956/2019
- Finding Johnny 2019
- Ricky and Mary 1979/2019
- Loose end, loosely tied, a coda of sorts 2019-2021.
- ISBN:
- 9781982177034
- 1982177039
- OCLC:
- 1473266437
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