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Violent crime was on the rise in the Jazz Age, and gangland carnage made flashy headlines. But few could conceive of who -- or what -- orchestrated the acts of barbaric murder and unimaginable defilement that commenced in San Francisco in the winter of 1926.
The savagery of Earle Leonard Nelson -- a hulking creature dubbed 'the Gorilla Man' -- shocked a nation weaned on the fictional nightmares of Edgar Allan Poe and distant legends of the Whitechapel murders. A child of unnatural obsessions and an aberrant sex drive, he grew to become a social outcast whose perverse behavior erupted in a sixteen-month spree of butchery that would not be equaled until decades later, by the likes of John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer.
The savagery of Earle Leonard Nelson -- a hulking creature dubbed 'the Gorilla Man' -- shocked a nation weaned on the fictional nightmares of Edgar Allan Poe and distant legends of the Whitechapel murders. A child of unnatural obsessions and an aberrant sex drive, he grew to become a social outcast whose perverse behavior erupted in a sixteen-month spree of butchery that would not be equaled until decades later, by the likes of John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer.
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| Author | Harold Schechter |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Pocket Star Books |
| Page Count | 368pp |
| Publication Size | 4" x 7" |
| Publication Notes | Mass Market Paperback Edition, b/w |
| Publication Date | 2004 |
| ISBN | 0-743483359 |
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