Description
The cruel discipline of Puritan life bred the hard-bitten and tough-working other people of Massachusetts, but did it also breed a novel form of criminal? This book explores the headline crimes of the state to seek out a solution. Included are the cases of the alleged ax-wielding Lizzie Borden, the executed anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, the legendary Brink’s theft, the mysterious Boston Strangler, the Big Dan’s spectator rape, the desperate school professor who murdered a tender prostitute, and the fur salesman who slaughtered his wife and unborn child in cold blood.