Bøker av John Ferak

The veteran true crime author chronicles the terrifying murders, surprising arrest and dramatic trial of Illinois serial killer Milton Johnson. In the summer of 1983, an elusive serial killer stalked the blue-collar industrial city of Joliet, Illinois. One overnight killing spree took five victims,including members of the Will County Sheriff's Office. The following month brought a quadruple murder inside a shop known for its pottery classes. The plague of violence sparkedthe controversial New York City-based Guardian Angels to descend on Joliet, generating more unwanted media attention for the community. The National Enquirer labeled Joliet ';Terror Town, U.S.A.' With an arrest that seemed to come out of nowhere, authorities linked their suspectto a chilling fourteen homicides, plus three women who miraculously survived their agonizing encounters. But with multiple murder trials on the horizon,it remained anyone's guess whether Milton Johnson was guilty of mass murder and if so, would he die by means of lethal injection at the Illinois Department of Corrections?

The remote farming community of Murdock, Nebraska, seemed to be the least likely setting for one of the heartland's most ruthless and bloody double murders in decades. But on the night of Easter 2006, Wayne and Sharmon Stock were brutally murdered in their home. John Ferak covered the Stock murders from the very beginning. This is his account of what became a law enforcement scandal.