The Sunset Strip Slayers

di Patricia Heuston (Autore)

SilverBack, 2026

The Sunset Strip Slayers In 1980, the glittering myths of Los Angeles collided with its grim realities as a shadow fell across the Sunset Strip. At a crossroads of economic dislocation and cultural fragmentation, the city's geography of isolation provided "zones of invisibility" where predators could operate with terrible efficiency. The narrative reconstructs the fatal convergence of Douglas Clark, a "nomad" child of military intelligence whose rootless upbringing forged a grandiose, necrophilic psychopath, and Carol Bundy, a woman whose architecture of childhood abuse created a desperate, pathological need for validation. Their folie à deux transformed them into a killing team that hunted the city's most vulnerable, teenage runaways and sex workers, rendered invisible by a society and law enforcement system that often deemed them "disposable".Through forensic reconstruction and psychological analysis, the book chronicles their summer spree, from the failed attack on Charlene A. to the brutal murders of stepsisters Gina Marano and Cynthia Chandler. It serves as a meditation on justice, examining the institutional failures that allowed the crimes to persist and the haunting silence that remains for the unidentified victims still waiting to be brought into the light.

• Autore: Patricia Heuston
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: SilverBack
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798233071805