Kirjahaku

He was the friendly, baby-faced, Canadian boy next door. He came from a loving, caring, and well-respected family. Blessed with good looks and back-woods charm, he was popular with his peers and he excelled in sports. A self-proclaimed "die hard" Calgary Flames fan, he played competitive junior hockey and competed on his school's snowboarding team. And he enjoyed the typical simple pleasures of a boy growing up in the country: camping, hunting, and fishing with family and friends. But he also enjoyed brutally murdering women, and he became one of the youngest serial killers in Canadian history.

Two families mysteriously murdered under similar circumstances, just a month apart. One was memorialized in Truman Capote's classic true crime novel, In Cold Blood. The other was all but forgotten. Dick Hickock and Perry Smith confessed to the first: the November 15, 1959 murder of the Clutter family of four in Holcomb, Kansas. Despite remarkable similarities between the two crimes, Hickock and Smith denied committing the second: the December 19 murder of the Walker family of four in Osprey, Florida.Over half a century later, a determined Florida detective undertakes exceptional efforts seeking to bring closure to the long-cold case.

What is the price of passion? Who knows the power of love?Meet Martha Beck, a young nurse dedicated to healing others until her own hurting heart lured her down a darker parth. Loneliness led her to Raymond Fernandez, but love led her all the way to the electric chair.This is the tragic true story of the Lonely Hearts Killers.