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# Fiend: The Shocking True Story Of America's Youngest Serial Killer

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    Portrait of a Psychopath
  

*by J***I on Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2020*

Story – 4.5/5Narration – 4.0/5“Fiend” by Harold Schechter is “The Shocking True Story of America’s Youngest Serial Killer”, Jesse Pomeroy.Excellent portrait of a precocious sexual sociopath.  Includes many quotes, newspaper ,and info from the records that paint a chilling picture of a psychopathic killer…  a twelve (12) year old psychopathic killer.My main takeaway from this book is the glimpse it gives into a sociopath’s mind.  The quotes are where it’s at, in this one.The narration was for the most part good, but the quotes from the title character were unnecessarily given a negative tone at times.Recommendation – you’ll like this if you’re interested in serial killers or psychopathy.

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    'The good old days' weren't so good
  

*by D***H on Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2013*

In another of Harold Schechter scholarly but so very readable books about serial killer, he points out that the good old days were not particularly beautiful, clean and pure, and free of violent serial killers, Jack the Ripper being an exception. With sewage and industrial waste dumped in rivers, lakes, and the ocean; the incredible amount of manure produced by horse-driven transport; the deplorable conditions found in 'the little red schoolhouse,' where the student-teacher ratio in large city school systems would cause current teachers to seek a different profession even it was flipping burgers; no sane person not blinded by nostalgia would consider 'the good old days' particularly good. Whatever problems plague us today--drugs, gangs, massacres of the innocent by the deranged, sensationalism in the media, corruption in our government--existed in the past. And that includes the serial killer, especially "Killer Kids." Murderous juveniles didn't suddenly appear with Columbine; like the poor, they have always been with us.Schechter recounts the life of one such "killer kid:" Jesse Pomeroy, called by the Boston press in 1872 the "Boy Torturer" among other names. He had tortured over a half-dozen children and butchered two more by the time he was fourteen. By the time he was captured Jesse Pomeroy was to become known as the "Boston Boy Fiend." And fiend he was as Schechter aptly proves in this tale of Jesse's reign of terror in 1870s Boston.  As with all of Schechter's books about true crime, I recommend this one for it's fine writing, detailed psychological insights, and the strong sense of place that the author always evokes.

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    Another Great One from Harold Schechter
  

*by K***I on Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2001*

I'm from the Boston area, and while my whole family is in Chelsea (the site of much of the action) I had only heard about Jesse Pomeroy while reading The Alienist by Caleb Carr.  I was quite excited to find out about Schechter's new book (thanks Amazon!).  I actually became interested in true crime after the Columbine shootings, and have been reading about children who kill.  From Mary Bell to the Liverpool boys who killed a toddler, to the Florida kids who killed the local bully, this subject has been endlessly facinating to me.  Ok, so maybe it is a bit gruesome too.  But I will say that with this book, Schechter hits the nail on the head.  Children who kill other children have been with us for a long time, and we continue to give the same lame excuses: the media (for Jesse that was dime novels, for our recent murders its the movies and video games that are blamed), single mothers, and just plain evil.This book does not answer the question of why, but we get a glimpse into the mind of one of these child killers.  It is quite chilling.  Schechter's research is awesome and his writing style is engaging and his message is clear (and frightening) the next fiend could be living next door, playing in the sandbox!If this book and subject matter are of interest to you, I also highly recommend Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill; The Story of Mary Bell.

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