A Stranger in the Family A True Story of Murder, Madness, and Unconditional Love

by Naifeh, Steven; Smith, Gregory White

• ISBN13: 9780451406224
• ISBN10: 0451406222
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-01
• Publisher: Onyx

Summary

Who would ever connect this handsome, charming straight-arrow son of a perfect all-American family with the gruesome crimes of a serial killer? Richard Daniel Starrett was the dangerous visitor for too many unlucky young women in Georgian and South Carolina in the late 1980s. Answering "for sale " ads in the classifieds, he was a buyer hunting for victims, not bargains, and he paid in grim coin: rape, kidnapping, murder. Because of his articulate intelligence and prestigious job, no one suspected this "golden boy " of such heinous acts . . . until, after a nationwide manhunt, the police finally caught Danny Starrett. This gripping, intimately detailed account by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors probes every tortured thought and twisted urge of a "boy-next-door murderer " - as well as the dynamics of the model family that shaped him. The result is both a stunning portrait of a diseased mind and the moving story of a loving family's emotional nightmare and painful disintegration.