While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family |
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| Authors: | Harrison, Kathryn |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | BIO024000, TRU002000, HIS036110 |
| ISBN: | 9781588367150, Related ISBNs: 0345516605, 0812976304, 1400065429, 1588367150, 9780345516602 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 304, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Early on an April morning, eighteen-year-old Billy Frank Gilley, Jr., killed his sleeping parents. Surprised in the act by his younger sister, Becky, he turned on her as well. Billy then climbed the stairs to the bedroom of his other sister, Jody, and said, “We’re free.” But is one ever free after an unredeemable act of violence? The Gilley family murders ended a lifetime of physical and mental abuse suffered by Billy and Jody at the hands of their parents. And it required each of the two survivors–one a convicted murderer, the other suddenly an orphan–to create a new identity, a new life.
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