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The Curse of Santa Cruz (Paperback)
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The Curse of Santa Cruz (Paperback)
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Loot Price R480
Discovery Miles 4 800
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Santa Cruz, California was dubbed "Murder Capitol of the World"
during the 1970's, when the decade recorded nearly thirty local
murders committed by no less than four serial killers. The Curse of
Santa Cruz explains that decade of carnage, along with the horrific
true and historical events including the demise of the local China
Town, Mafia takeover, and even the Ranchero's of the area, all
stemmed from an old Indian legend of a curse and the occurrences
that lead to the annihilation of the Ohlone Indian Nation. When ex
local news reporter Rowanda, now an aging high school teacher,
recounts the history of Santa Cruz in a pilot class, she finally
got up the nerve to test on her hard to impress students and her
past comes back to haunt her. Drawing on her own experiences,
including coverage of the bizarre bird attacks on the town (which
gave rise to Hitchcock's masterpiece), she begins to engage a very
impressionable group of teens. And even though she believes she has
completely recovered from her years in a coma, after being left for
dead behind the old Front Street Mansion (actual blueprint house
for Hitchcock's "Psycho") by a serial killer who wrongly thought
his beating had finished her, she is about to open old wounds that
take her down new paths. As she and the class begin to take on the
town's history as a mystery to be solved, the mystery starts to
take them on as well, as the journey becomes one of self-discovery
for them all.
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