Fear Came to Town: The Santa Claus, Georgia, Murders

Authors: Crandell, Doug
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: TRU002010, SOC004000, SOC051000
ISBN: 9781101155776, Related ISBNs: 0425231496, 1101155779, 9780425231494, 9781101155776
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 304,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: In the town of Santa Claus, Georgia, the holiday spirit lived all year round...until Jerry Scott Heidler came to town...

In Santa Claus, Georgia, the streets were named Candy Cane Road and December Drive. Christmas was the lifeblood of the people. One terrible night in December 1997, Heidler broke into the home of his former foster family and brutally murdered them. Doug Crandell describes the harrowing incident that changed this one town forever.
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