Independence Day weekend, 1960: a young police officer is murdered,
shocking his close-knit community in Stamford, Connecticut. The
killer remains at large, his identity still unknown. But on a beach
not far away, a young Army doctor, on leave from his post at a
research lab in a maximum-security prison, faces a chilling
realisation. He knows who the shooter is. In fact, the man—a
prisoner out on parole—had called him only days before. By
helping his former charge and trainee, the doctor, a believer in
second chances, may have inadvertently helped set the murder into
motion. And with that one phone call, may have sealed a
policeman’s fate. Alvin Tarlov, David Troy and Joseph DeSalvo
were all born of the Great Depression, all with grandparents
who’d left different homelands for the same American Dream. How
did one become a doctor, one a police officer and one a convict? In
Genealogy of a Murder, journalist Lisa Belkin traces the paths of
each of these three men—one of them her stepfather. Her canvas is
large, spanning the first half of the 20th century: immigration,
the struggles of the working class, prison reform, medical
experiments, politics and war, the nature/nurture debate,
epigenetics, the infamous Leopold and Loeb case and the history of
motorcycle racing. It is also intimate: a look into the workings of
the mind and heart. Following these threads to their tragic outcome
in July 1960, and beyond, Belkin examines the coincidences and
choices that led to one fateful night. The result is a brilliantly
researched, narratively ingenious story, which illuminates how we
shape history even as we are shaped by it.
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