By Harold Schechter
A MONSTER PREYED UPON the youngsters OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES have been APPALLING -- AND but HE used to be LITTLE greater than a toddler HIMSELF.
whilst fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy used to be arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting urban got here to an finish. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was once imprisoned ultimately. however the complicated questions sparked via his ghastly crime spree -- the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime -- have been as suitable within the so-called Age of Innocence as they're this day.
Jesse Pomeroy was once outwardly repellent in visual appeal, with a grotesque "dead" eye; within, he was once deformed past imagining. A sexual sadist of worrying precocity, he chuffed his atrocious appetites through abducting and torturing his baby sufferers. yet quickly, the teenager's bloodlust gave option to one other obsession: homicide.
Harold Schechter, whose true-crime masterpieces are "well-documented nightmares for an individual who dares to look" (Peoria magazine Star), brings his acclaimed mixture of page-turning storytelling, marvelous perception, and interesting old documentation to Fiend -- an unforgettable account from the annals of yank crime.
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The McQuaigs’ residence was one of the better tended, its yard neat with typical north Florida vegetation that included orange trees and semitropical plants. Inside, the house was very obviously family-oriented. The living-room furnishings were worn and comfortable. Photographs of the McQuaigs’ six children, fifteen grandchildren, and fifteen great-grandchildren smiled at visitors from the every available surface. A dining table, capable of seating a large family group, occupied the area between living room and kitchen.
This was no surprise as the two had periodically stayed in touch since Thompson retired from his St. Augustine insurance business to return to his hometown, near Asheville, North Carolina. But the holiday season was always a busy time in law enforcement—lots of traffic accidents, domestic fights, DUIs by those who had celebrated too heartily—so the card, along with other mail, lay unopened until after New Year’s. On the January day that Sheriff Perry finally slit open the envelope, he had no idea that it would contain the key to the savage killings that had plagued local law enforcement for nearly a decade.
Eugene Wells, an employee of the Anastasia Mosquito Control District, was collecting water samples from the borrow ponds on Fish Island and identifying potential mosquito-breeding areas. As he was turning around by one of the ponds, he noticed something floating in the water, stopped his truck, and got out to check further. His first thought was that it was a department store mannequin that had been discarded. Returning to his truck, he put on a pair of water boots and stepped into the edge of the pond to get a better look.