BROKEN HOME BROKEN MIND: The Psychology of a Family Mass Murderer
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BROKEN HOME BROKEN MIND: The Psychology of a Family Mass Murderer
Sale price
$35.99
Regular price $43.99
On a Quiet Autumn Morning in 1964, a Troy, Michigan family was Gone.
What happened inside that house — and why — would puzzle investigators, divide a community, and expose the fault lines running through America's legal and mental health systems at a time when neither was equipped to handle what they found.
BROKEN HOME BROKEN MIND is part true crime narrative, part psychological investigation, part memoir. Drawing on original newspaper accounts, police records, and court documents, the author reconstructs the story of a family mass murder with meticulous care — and asks the harder questions that the courts alone could never answer.
But this is also a portrait of a place and a moment frozen in time. Troy and neighboring Clawson, Michigan in 1964 were still finding their footing — a patchwork of farms and small-town streets, even as the steel skeleton of Oakland Mall began to rise just down the road, promising a future no one could quite picture yet. It was a world that felt safe. Ordinary. Until it wasn't.
With the trained eye of a psychologist and the intimate knowledge of someone who knew this place, the author moves beyond the facts of the crime to explore what the facts alone cannot explain — the minds, the circumstances, and the failures of a system that may have seen the signs too late.
What happened inside that house — and why — would puzzle investigators, divide a community, and expose the fault lines running through America's legal and mental health systems at a time when neither was equipped to handle what they found.
BROKEN HOME BROKEN MIND is part true crime narrative, part psychological investigation, part memoir. Drawing on original newspaper accounts, police records, and court documents, the author reconstructs the story of a family mass murder with meticulous care — and asks the harder questions that the courts alone could never answer.
But this is also a portrait of a place and a moment frozen in time. Troy and neighboring Clawson, Michigan in 1964 were still finding their footing — a patchwork of farms and small-town streets, even as the steel skeleton of Oakland Mall began to rise just down the road, promising a future no one could quite picture yet. It was a world that felt safe. Ordinary. Until it wasn't.
With the trained eye of a psychologist and the intimate knowledge of someone who knew this place, the author moves beyond the facts of the crime to explore what the facts alone cannot explain — the minds, the circumstances, and the failures of a system that may have seen the signs too late.