Jack Olsen

From the award-winning author of Son: A Psychopath and His Victims comes the revealing confessions of fourteen college women and their free-swinging experiments outside of the classroom. If there were a Dean's List for outspoken candor, the fourteen women featured in The Girls on Campus would be on it. Find out about their "extracurricular activities" as college students in the tumultuous 1970s, in a rebellious environment filled with alcohol, drugs, and sex. Free from the constraints of parents and home, they came to college to learn about life--and that includes a lot of things you never read about in textbooks. Education doesn't always end with lectures and study halls as these women come of age during a counterculture movement. Jack Olsen provides readers with an insightful and personal perspective of life on campus in the 1970s through the eyes of these young women.

Polnaja istorija manjaka Artura Shoukrossa - samogo paradoksalnogo serijnogo ubijtsy, lishivshego zhizni snachala malchika i devochku, a potom bolee desjati vzroslykh zhenschin. Odnim on kazalsja monstrom bez nadezhdy na ispravlenie. Drugie videli v nem problemnogo junoshu, kotoromu mozhno pomoch. Malenkij Arti Shoukrosc s detstva byl zagadkoj dlja psikhiatrov: on muchil zhivotnykh, razgovarival s vymyshlennymi druzjami i neodnokratno ubegal iz doma iz-za zhestokoj materi. Pri etom on ispravno poluchal vysshie otsenki, preuspeval v sporte i delilsja dengami i igrushkami s detmi, kotorye nad nim nasmekhalis. Povzroslev i otsluzhiv vo Vetname, Artur sovershaet seriju podzhogov i krazh so vzlomom, a zatem ubijstvo malchika i devochki. Otsidev dva sroka, Artur vykhodit na svobodu, i sotsialnye sluzhby seljat ego v gorodok Rochester bliz Nju-Jorka - zabyv predupredit mestnuju politsiju. Spustja nekotoroe vremja v mestnoj reke Dzhenesi nachinajut nakhodit trupy molodykh zhenschin, i ikh chislo bystro perevalivaet za desjat... Pochemu Artur ubival samykh raznykh zhertv - snachala detej, a potom zhenschin, - ne kak ostalnye serijnye ubijtsy? Kak povlijalo na nego nasilie materi? A mozhet, vo vsem vinovaty zhestokie stseny pytok, uvidennye vo Vetname? I pochemu psikhiatry govorili, chto on ne psikhopat? "Ubijtsa s reki Dzhenesi" - eto masterskaja khronika ubijstv odnogo iz samykh protivorechivykh manjakov, napisannaja v sotrudnichestve s ego blizkimi, rodstvennikami zhertv i detektivami po ego delu.

"Samaja volnujuschaja kniga iz kogda-libo napisannykh. Ne dlja slabonervnykh - a dlja tekh, kto gotov pogruzitsja v samye temnye glubiny chelovecheskoj izvraschennosti". - Gregg Olsen, avtor mirovogo bestsellera "Ne govori nikomu. Realnaja istorija sester, vyrosshikh s materju-ubijtsej" PRIZNANNYJ MASTER TRU-KRAJMA DZHEK OLSEN, OBLADAJUSCHIJ BESPRETSEDENTNYM DOSTUPOM K SERIJNOMU UBIJTSE, POGRUZHAET CHITATELEJ V SOZNANIE MANJAKA. ETO ISTORIJa UBIJTSY, RASSKAZANNAJa IM SAMIM. "Ja ubil Tanju Bennett... Ja zabil ee do smerti, iznasiloval ee, i mne ponravilos. Da, ja bolnoj, no mne eto nravitsja. Drugikh sazhajut, a menja - net. Budte nastorozhe. Vozmozhno, ja blizhe, chem vam kazhetsja". - Kit Khanter Dzhesperson, Ubijtsa so schastlivym litsom V fevrale 1990 goda politsija shtata Oregon arestovala paru Dzhona Sosnovki i Lavern Pavlinak za iznasilovanie i ubijstvo 23-letnej Tani Bennett. Na sude Lavern obvinila v ubijstve Dzhona, priznavshis v souchastii. Vlasti zakryli delo. Byla tolko odna problema: za reshetku seli nevinovnye ljudi... Nastojaschim ubijtsej Tani i semi drugikh devushek byl dalnobojschik Kit Dzhesperson. Podbiraja zhertv na trassakh, s kazhdoj on igral v "smertelnuju igru", v kotoroj dushil ikh, zatem neskolko raz ozhivljal, prezhde chem ubit. V izvraschennoj manere manjaka, zhazhduschego slavy, on nachal kampaniju za osvobozhdenie Sosnovki i Pavlinak. Dzhesperson otpravljal v redaktsii gazet nasmeshlivye priznanija v ubijstvakh, pririsovyvaja smajlik v kontse soobschenij - za chto poluchil prozvische "Ubijtsa so schastlivym litsom". Osnovannaja na mnogochislennykh intervju s Dzhespersonom i ego okruzheniem, dnevnikakh i sudebnykh protokolakh, kniga "Ubijtsa so schastlivym litsom" - eto pugajuschaja istorija stanovlenija sadista i manjaka, rasskazannaja im samim. "Dlja svoego zhanra eto prosto bomba! Olsen, ochevidno, imel polnyj dostup k Dzhespersonu, ego seme i druzjam... Tru-krajm v samom luchshem ego vide". - Kirkus Review

A genuine classic. Not to be missed. By one of the masters of nonfiction. Monte Sole - Mountain of the Sun - had the bad luck to lie on the main route of withdrawal of the retreating German armies in autumn 1944. As the allied advance stormed up Italy to the very shadow of Monte Sole, Axis frustration over their retreat and the harassing Italian partisans reached its peak. With full authorization of Field Marshall Albert Kesselring, and with an infusion of dread SS reinforcements, the Germans determined to neutralize Monte Sole. The result was, in Kesselring's chilling words, "a war operation". Jack Olsen re-creates the unspeakable three-day butchery of innocent Italian civilians that ranked among the blackest atrocities in the history of man's inhumanities to man.Kirkus Reviews: The story of the Italian mountain villagers who lived on Monte Sole trying to survive the war and the horror that overtook them on September 29, 30 and October 1, 1944, when the retreating German army massacred 1800 of the citizens of Monte Sole. Olsen, a writer with a penchant for mountains (The Climb to Hell), tells the story well. The mountain--a 2000-foot peak in central Italy, some fifteen miles south of Bologna--had been a haven for Partisans. For this reason the Germans mistrusted the villagers, but the ugly rastrellamento (purge) occurred more by chance than vengeance: Monte Sole happened to be located on the main route of the retreating army, and the SS deemed it necessary to ""neutralize"" the mountain. In operational terms, this meant mass-murder. The book is based on the accounts of survivors, the few official records, courtroom testimony, and visible scars. It begins with the postman on his rounds, and by this device visits with most of the contadini (tenant farmers) of the region, the priests, the storekeeper, the elders. They are simple people, family-oriented rather than nationalistic, and often likably eccentric. It is their very individuality that makes the ensuing chapters on the mass-murder so effective. Compelling, compassionate--rarely sentimental--a stirring book.The award-winning author of thirty-three books, Jack Olsen's books have been published in fifteen countries and eleven languages. Olsen's journalism earned the National Headliners Award, Chicago Newspaper Guild's Page One Award, commendations from Columbia and Indiana Universities, the Washington State Governor's Award, the Scripps-Howard Award and other honors. He was listed in Who's Who in America since 1968 and in Who's Who in the World since 1987. The Philadelphia Inquirer described him as "an American treasure."Olsen was described as "the dean of true crime authors" by the Washington Post and the New York Daily News and "the master of true crime" by the Detroit Free Press and Newsday. Publishers Weekly called him "the best true crime writer around." His studies of crime are required reading in university criminology courses and have been cited in the New York Times Notable Books of the Year. In a page-one review, the Times described his work as "a genuine contribution to criminology and journalism alike."Olsen is a two-time winner in the Best Fact Crime category of the Mystery Writer's of America, Edgar award.

The war between society and the antisocial personality has long been a subject of fascination, and few have explored it as thoroughly as award-winning author Jack Olsen. In his national best seller Son: A Psychopath and His Victims, Olsen studied a psychopathic rapist who found the perfect protective coloration in jogging shoes and sweats.In this book, the story of Claude Lafayette Dallas, Jr., Olsen takes on perhaps his most challenging assignment -- explicating the curious relationship between a homicidal young "mountain man" and those who saw in his colorful ways the embodiment of the cowboy mystique of the West.On a snow-blown day, Dallas killed two game wardens who entered his trapping and poaching camp in ldaho's Owyhee Desert. The cold-bloodedness of Dallas's crime shocked the West. Stained with his victim's blood. he confessed to a companion, "This is Murder One for me."Then Claude Dallas vanished into the wild and rugged mountains that had sheltered him for so long. For fifteen long months he was the subject of an international manhunt until the FBI and a drawling country sheriff joined forces to run him to earth in a rain of bullets. Only then did lawmen learn about the network of friends who had helped him elude capture. To some of Dallas's rustic neighbors the deadly progression from cowboy to poacher to killer seemed justifiable, even admirable.Clanking around the bars and barrancas of the high desert country in his hand-filed spurs and well-oiled guns, Claude Dallas had brought a strange new madness to the mythology of the West, a madness that even a jury of his peers found nostalgically seductive in a sensational trial. Claude Dallas came within a whisker of going free. Only Jack Olsen, through painstaking research into Dallas's background and exhaustive on-the-scene interviewing, could unravel such a rat's nest of contradictions and confusions and create so compelling a portrait of the killer whose bloody deeds might have been foreordained from childhood. From Publishers WeeklyClaude Dallas Jr. was raised in Upper Michigan and Ohio by a father whose philosophy was "give a boy a gun and you're makin' a man." After high school, the young man went to the rugged border area of Idaho, Oregon and Nevada and worked as a cow-puncher and handyman on several ranches. But his dream was evidently to become a 19th centurystyle mountain man and so he turned to poaching, often killing animals even though he had no need for the meat. In 1981, he killed two game wardens in front of a witness. On the run for 15 months, he was eventually captured in a shootout and found guilty of manslaughter in a singularly bizarre trial. From Library Journal Give a boy a gun and you're makin' a man, '' Claude Dallas, Sr., is quoted as saying in this book about his son, Claude Jr., a self-made cowboy, trapper, and mountain man'' who was convicted of manslaughter in the shooting deaths of two Idaho game wardens. Claude Jr. was well-liked by many, including a sympathetic jury which rejected possible first or second degree murder verdicts. Was it a case of self-defense or outright murder? Olsen, who last wrote the popular Son'': a psychopath and his victims ( LJ 11/15/83), skillfully presents his viewpoint in a readable tale more reminiscent of Old West traditions than of the 1980s. Recommended.

And on its surface, the Chappaquiddick Incident (as it has infamously become known) was a simple but tragic traffic accident. However, its political fallout caused it to become the most speculated-upon car accident until Princess Diana's fatal ride, some 28 years later: Was Kennedy drunk? Was he trying to conceal an affair by deliberately killing Kopechne? Why did he wait for so long before reporting the accident? And who else was involved? Olsen tells the tale with as much detail as was made available to him. Though there is apparently only a single living eye-witness to the accident (Kennedy himself, who described having the "sensation of drowning" on live television a week later), Olsen tracks down the incongruous statements made by others who were indirectly involved... and comes to a potential conclusion which would be difficult to refute. There is no legal evidence of this conclusion, of course, but his alternate explanation of events turns much of the circumstantial evidence into a logic-of-sorts

A classic from "the dean of true crime" (The Washington Post)--now with a new foreword--this 1983 masterpiece tells the incredible story of a Spokane, Washington serial rapist who was exposed as the handsome, privileged son of one of the city's most elite families. For more than two years, a rapist prowled the night streets of the homey, All-American city of Spokane, Washington, terrorizing women, sparking a run on gun stores, and finally causing one newspaper to offer a reward--the calls taken by the distinguished managing editor himself, Gordon Coe. In March 1981, luck and inspired police work at last produced an arrest, and Spokane shuddered. The suspect was clean cut and conservative...and Gordon Coe's son. For eighteen months, Jack Olsen researched the cases of Fred and Ruth Coe to try to learn not only what happened within that family, but how and why. He interviewed more than 150 people and built up a portrait not only of that extraordinary family, but of the mind of a psychopath. And searching the memories of the women in Fred Coe's life, he unearthed a most horrifying question: What is it like to love and live with a man for years--and then discover he is a psychopathic criminal? In this "gruesomely spellbinding" (Glamour) examination of the mind of a psychopath and of the women--and men--who were his victims, Olsen delivers "a harrowing portrait...It has become fashionable with books about vicious crimes to compare them to Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Finally there is a book that deserves the comparison" (Richmond Times-Dispatch).