Death in a Texas Desert.Death In A Texas Desert Carlton Stowers Republic of Texas Press c/o Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, MD 20706 1556229771 $18.95 1-800-462-6420 Compiled by true crime writer and newspaper journalist Carlton Stowers, Death In A Texas Desert is a very highly recommended anthology of seventeen crime stories taken from the pages of the Dallas Observer The Dallas Observer is a free alternative weekly newspaper distributed around the Dallas, Texas (USA) area. At its inception, it was conceived as a weekly local arts and cinema review publication, with the credo "Advocate for Excellence in the Arts" on the cover. . These were horrific cases of notorious events that range from the search for alleged murderer Ira Einhorn Ira Samuel Einhorn, a.k.a. "The Unicorn Killer", (born May 15, 1940) was an American activist in the 1960s and 1970s who is now serving a life sentence for the murder of Holly Maddux in 1977. Einhorn was active in ecological and antiwar groups in the 1960s. , to the legacy of racist killer bobby Frank Cherry Bobby Frank Cherry (June 20, 1930 in Mineral Springs, Alabama - November 18, 2004 at Kilby Correctional Facility, Montgomery) was convicted in 2002 for the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, which killed four African-American girls. , to the last, angry days of George Hennard who opened fire in Killeen's Luby's Cafeteria killing 23 patrons. These are stories of human experience at hits darkest as exemplified by Andrea Yates Andrea Pia Yates (born July 2, 1964) committed the filicide of her five young children on June 20, 2001 by drowning them in the bathtub in her house. Convicted of first degree murder in 2002 and sentenced to life in prison with parole possible after 40 years, Yates' conviction was who killed her five children and the impact Rusty Yates, her husband and the father of her children whose life was irrevocably shattered in a few short hours. Other stories are about missing children, a rest home murderer, and murders solved almost a century after they were committed. Through each and every story, Carlton Stowers takes his readers seriously and provides them with stories that are devoid of gossip and exaggeration as we explore the darkest sides of criminology criminology, the study of crime, society's response to it, and its prevention, including examination of the environmental, hereditary, or psychological causes of crime, modes of criminal investigation and conviction, and the efficacy of punishment or correction (see as they played out in the lives of real people with real consequences for themselves and their communities. |
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