Bibliograph

The long shadow of small ghosts, murder and memory in an American city, Laura Tillman

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The long shadow of small ghosts, murder and memory in an American city, Laura Tillman

Language

eng

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The long shadow of small ghosts

Responsibility statement

Laura Tillman

Sub title

murder and memory in an American city

Summary

BIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas--one of America's poorest cities--John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children. The apartment building in which the brutal crimes took place was already run down, and in their aftermath a consensus developed in the community that it should be destroyed. In 2008, journalist Laura Tillman covered the story for The Brownsville Herald. The questions it raised haunted her and set her on a six-year inquiry into the larger significance of such acts, ones so difficult to imagine or explain that their perpetrators are often dismissed as monsters alien to humanity

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