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A Death in White Bear Lake - The True Chronicle of an All-American Town (Paperback)
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A Death in White Bear Lake - The True Chronicle of an All-American Town (Paperback)
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A mother’s search for the son she gave up uncovers terrifying
secrets in a Minnesota town in this “masterfully depicted
true-crime tale” (Publishers Weekly). In 1962, Jerry Sherwood
gave up her newborn son, Dennis, for adoption. Twenty years later,
she set out to find him—only to discover he had died before his
fourth birthday. The immediate cause was peritonitis, but the
coroner had never decided the mode of death, writing “deferred”
rather than indicate accident, natural causes, or homicide. This he
did even though the autopsy photos showed Dennis covered from head
to toe in ugly bruises, his clenched fists and twisted facial
expression suggesting he had died writhing in pain. Harold
and Lois Jurgens, a middle-class, churchgoing couple in picturesque
White Bear Lake, Minnesota, had adopted Dennis and five other
foster children. To all appearances, they were a normal midwestern
family, but Jerry suspected that something sinister had happened in
the Jurgens household. She demanded to know the truth about her
son’s death. Why did authorities dismiss evidence that
marked Dennis as an endangered child? Could Lois Jurgens’s
brother, a local police lieutenant, have interfered in the
investigation? And most disturbing of all, why had so many people
who’d witnessed Lois’s brutal treatment of her children stay
silent for so long? Determined to find answers, local detectives
and prosecutors rebuilt the case brick by brick, finally exposing
the shocking truth behind a nightmare in suburbia. A
finalist for the Edgar Award, A Death in White Bear Lake is “a
distinguished entry in the annals of crime documentary,” and a
vivid portrait of the all-American town that harbored a sadistic
killer (The Washington Post).
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