The Shadow of Death
The Hunt for a Serial Killer
by Philip E. Ginsburg
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The Shadow of Death is the unforgettable true story of the search for the man who, since 1984, has killed at least six women and young girls in the Connecticut River Valley area of New Hampshire and Vermont. It is the definitive account of how police and forensic psychologists work to track a killer, and it is the harrowing story of bucolic innocen...
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