The third book in the Bloodlands series on Amazon and this one was forgettable as soon as I finished it. I read it a couple weeks ago and I forgot to write this review of it the night I got home from the library.
The main premise of this is the brickslayer who killed unsuspecting women in their homes, or hotel rooms. It was women who were alone or with their children. The killings started in Los Angeles and then they stopped after the police started looking. The killings then started back up in Chicago and they eventually capture the killer, after the police rounded up every lone black male walking about and who looked suspicious.
The killer named Robert Nixon was allegedly tortured while in police custody to confessing and his defense was that he had the IQ of a child and did the state really want to put a child to death. They pass a guilty verdict and he also confessed to the murders in Los Angeles.
This case was the inspirate for the classic book Native Son.
No comments:
Post a Comment