The Want-Ad Killer

Authors: Rule, Ann
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: TRU002010, SOC004000, SOC051000
ISBN: 9781101667460, Related ISBNs: 0451166884, 110166746X, 9780451166883, 9781101667460
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 320,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me comes a true crime story of a serial killer who was sentenced to die—yet lived to murder again....and again....

After committing his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death, using want ads to lure his young female victims. And time after time, justice was thwarted by a killer whose twisted legal genius was matched only by his sick savagery.

Complete with the testimony of the officers who put him behind bars and the women who barely escaped with their lives, The Want-Ad Killer is one of the most shattering and thought-provoking true-crime stories of our time.
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