Delivered from Evil: True Stories of Ordinary People Who Faced Monsterous Mass Killers and Survived

by Franscell, Ron

• ISBN13: 9781592334407
• ISBN10: 1592334407
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Quarto Pub Group USA

Summary

Delivered from Evilretells the stories of mass murders from the harrowing perspective of a sole survivor. Drawing from extensive research and 1st person interviews with the survivors, the most notable cases will be given a fresh and disturbing new perspective. Using survivorrs"s accounts, some of which have never been told until now, readers will feel like they are actually walking through the event moment by moment Written in a canrs"t-put-down-style,Delivered from Evilexplores what it takes to be a survivor of a horrific crime in the moment and in dealing with the aftermath of the event.

Author Biography

Ron Franscell is the author of The Darkest Night, a well-reviewed book about a survivor of a harrowing murder attempt in which her sister died. He also works as a journalist whose work regularly appears in publications such as the Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Post, San Jose Mercury-News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. His books include Angel Fire and The Deadline. He grew up in Wyoming and currently lives in Texas.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Shadowlands Between	p. 8
"They're all Dead": Charles Cohen and the Insane Spree Killer Howard Unruh	p. 12
"Today is Gonna be Visual": Brent Doonan and the Atlanta Day Trader Spree	p. 40
Seventy-Seven Minutes in Hell: Keith Thomas and the McDonald's Massacre	p. 66
Nightmare at Noon: Suzanna Gratia Hupp and the Luby's Massacre	p. 94
Death From Above: Tim Ursin and the Howard Johnson Sniper	p. 118
The Darkest Tower: Roland Ehlke and the Texas tower Sniper	p. 142
Evil on the Front Porch: Dianne Alexander and the Serial Killer Derrick Todd Lee	p. 166
The Devil you Know: Anthony Majzer and serial Killer David Maust	p. 188
A Prayer Before Dying: Missy Jenkins and the West Paducah High School Shooting	p. 210
Alone in a Dark sea: Terry Jo Duperrault and the Bluebelle Murders	p. 234
Selected Bibliography	p. 259
Acknowledgments	p. 264
About the Author	p. 265
Index	p. 266
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Excerpts

FromDelivered from Evil, Seventy-Seven Minutes in Hell, McDonald’s Massacre, San Ysidro, California, July 18, 1984.

Keith Thomas slid down beneath the table as the room exploded in an endless shudder of deafening bursts. He had never heard anything as horrifying as the earsplitting rake of semi-automatic gunfire, much less in the confined, peaceful spaces of a neighborhood McDonald’s. Everything was upside down.
Under the seat against the wall, shielded by Ron Herrera, Keith couldn’t see anything except the camouflaged pants of a man walking deliberately just feet away.
“What’s happening?” he asked.
“Be still!” Ron commanded him. “Don’t move!”
Keith turned his face to the wall and closed his eyes. He no longer wanted to see what might be coming. He already knew.
He was about to die.