{"id":3537,"date":"2011-08-10T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2011-08-10T07:00:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T12:00:20","slug":"patron-recommendation-the-killer-of-little-shepherds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=3537","title":{"rendered":"Patron Recommendation: The Killer of Little Shepherds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Publisher’s Summary:
\n“A riveting true crime story that vividly recounts the birth of modern forensics.At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher, known and feared as \u201cThe Killer of Little Shepherds,\u201d terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities for years\u2014until he ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne, the era\u2019s most renowned criminologist. The two men\u2014intelligent and bold\u2014typified the Belle \u00c9poque, a period of immense scientific achievement and fascination with science\u2019s promise to reveal the secrets of the human condition. With high drama and stunning detail, Douglas Starr revisits Vacher\u2019s infamous crime wave, interweaving the story of how Lacassagne and his colleagues were developing forensic science as we know it. We see one of the earliest uses of criminal profiling, as Fourquet painstakingly collects eyewitness accounts and constructs a map of Vacher\u2019s crimes. We follow the tense and exciting events leading to the murderer\u2019s arrest. And we witness the twists and turns of the trial, celebrated in its day. In an attempt to disprove Vacher\u2019s defense by reason of insanity, Fourquet recruits Lacassagne, who in the previous decades had revolutionized criminal science by refining the use of blood-spatter evidence, systematizing the autopsy, and doing groundbreaking research in psychology. Lacassagne\u2019s efforts lead to a gripping courtroom denouement….<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Our patron’s comment: “Fascinating.”
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