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Making a Monster - Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston (Paperback)
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Making a Monster - Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston (Paperback)
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When twelve- year- old Jesse Pomeroy tortured seven small boys in
the Boston area and then went on to brutally murder two other
children, one of the most striking aspects of his case was his
inability ever to answer the question of why he did what he did.
Whether in court or in the newspapers, many experts tried to
explain his horrible acts- and distance the rest of society from
them. Despite those efforts, and attempts since, the mystery
remains. In this book, Dawn Keetley details the story of Pomeroy's
crimes and the intense public outcry. She explores the two reigning
theories at the time- that he was shaped before birth when his
pregnant mother visited a slaughterhouse and that he imitated
brutal acts found in popular dime novels. Keetley then thoughtfully
offers a new theory: that Pomeroy was a psychopath who revealed our
potential for brutality and tested societal efforts to manage
behavior. The reaction to Pomeroy's acts, then and now,
demonstrates the struggle to account for those aspects of human
nature that remain beyond our ability to understand them.
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