On the day before Easter Sunday 1895, four women entered the
Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Francisco's Mission District to
decorate the altar with flowers. When they opened the door to the
little room containing the library, they were greeted with a
horrible sight: the stabbed and strangled body of 21-year-old
Minnie Williams, her blood coating the floor and spattering the
walls. A search of the church revealed another grisly discovery in
the belfry: the decomposing body of another young woman, reported
as missing ten days before. She, too, had been strangled. But
unlike the victim in the library, Blanche Lamont was lovingly laid
out as if for burial. Clues led the police to a friend of both
victims, a medical student who was also the assistant
superintendent of the church's Sunday school. But those who knew
Theo Durrant denied that this highly respectable young man could
have had anything to do with these horrible crimes. The young man
who committed these two apparently motiveless murders was depicted
by the popular press at the time as a monster, a devil in disguise,
only pretending to be religious. McConnell demonstrates that he was
exactly what he seemed to be: a genuinely good man whose life went
terribly wrong because of the biological, genetic, and mental
problems from which he suffered -- problems he was not even aware
of. Sympathy for the Devil examines the extensive and sensational
press coverage of the case (criticized by the Governor and by the
California Supreme Court), the effect of the murders on San
Francisco, and also analyzes what turned an apparently upstanding
young man into a vicious murderer.
General
| Imprint: |
Praeger Publishers Inc
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2001 |
| First published: |
September 2001 |
| Authors: |
Virginia McConnell
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
376 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-275-97054-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-275-97054-X |
| Barcode: |
9780275970543 |
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