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In May 1973, three men broke out of a Maryland prison and escaped the state with a 15‑year‑old boy. They resurfaced in Georgia where, after a joyride in a stolen vehicle, they committed a series of murders that left six family members dead. Thomas H. Cook’s true‑crime account draws on court transcripts, police reports and interviews with surviving relatives to detail the chilling events and the courtroom fallout that followed.
First publish date: 1992
Genre: Crime Fiction/Criminal Underworld
Authors: Thomas H. Cook
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