An edition of Cold Kill (1987)

Cold kill

the true story of a murderous love

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An edition of Cold Kill (1987)

Cold kill

the true story of a murderous love

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Olsen has another winner in his account of the 1984 double murder of Texas lawyer James Campbell and his wife Virginia by their daughter Cindy and her lover, David West. It is a somewhat unusual true-crime study, not because the case was broken by a private detective rather than the police and not because the final disposition of the case is not included, but, rather, because of its searching psychological depiction of the killers. The analysis of the daughter suggests that she was a classic sociopath, a pathological liar incapable of any emotion or thought that did not involve her self-interest, unique in a close and loving family. The lover was far more complex, a weak man, an ex-Marine, who desperately wanted to appear strong, a man chivalrous toward women and uniformly unsuccessful with them. Their story makes for shattering reading.

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Publisher
Atheneum
Language
English
Pages
391

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Cover of: Cold Kill
Cold Kill
November 1, 1988, Dell
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Cover of: Cold kill
Cold kill: the true story of a murderous love
1987, Atheneum
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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.1/523/097641411
Library of Congress
HV6785 .O47 1987

The Physical Object

Pagination
391 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
391

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2385518M
Internet Archive
coldkilltruesto00olse
ISBN 10
0689118317
LCCN
87014444
OCLC/WorldCat
16003943
Library Thing
843833
Goodreads
2795990

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