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Authors: Harold Schechter

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After forty-one years, Pomeroy is finally released from his solitary cell in January 1917.
(Corbis Images)

Pomeroy poses with one of the many modern wonders he has never seen—a motion picture camera.
(The Boston Herald)

Frontispiece portrait from Pomeroy’s 1920 book of poetry,
Selections from the Writings of Jesse Harding Pomeroy, Life Prisoner Since 1874.

After more than fifty years in Charlestown prison, Jesse Pomeroy (center) is transferred to the state farm at Bridgewater in July 1929.
(Corbis Images)

Pocket Books by Harold Schechter

The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
(with David Everitt)

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Fiend

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ISBN: 0-671-01448-X

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First Pocket Books trade paperback printing October 2000

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Cover design by Brigid Pearson

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