From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes "the
most powerful and disturbing true crime narrative to appear since
Truman Capote's In Cold Blood" (TIME)—a case that destroyed a
family, engulfed a small town, and captivated an America obsessed by
rumors of a satanic underground. In 1988 Ericka and Julie Ingram
began making a series of accusations of sexual abuse against their
father, Paul Ingram, who was a respected deputy sheriff in Olympia,
Washington. At first the accusations were confined to molestations in
their childhood, but they grew to include torture and rape as recently
as the month before. At a time when reported incidents of "recovered
memories" had become widespread, these accusations were not unusual.
What captured national attention in this case is that, under
questioning, Ingram appeared to remember participating in bizarre
satanic rites involving his whole family and other members of the
sheriff's department. As Remembering Satan follows the increasingly
bizarre accusations and confessions, the claims and counterclaims of
police, FBI investigators, and mental health professionals, it gives
us what is at once a psychological detective story and a domestic
tragedy about what happens when modern science is subsumed by our most
archaic fears.
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A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780307790675
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Random House Digital Inc.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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