Deadly Lust: A Serial Killer Strikes. This item is unavailable.Deadly Lust: A Serial Killer Strikes

Recreates the twisted story of family man William Darrell Lindsey who, over the course of ten years, brutally raped and murdered more than seven prostitutes in his attempt to satisfy his need for sexual depravity.

A brutal sex and murder spree beset St. Augustine, Florida, from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s, ending with the apprehension of William Darrell Lindsey, who had traveled the South, raping and killing young women with gusto. He confessed to seven murders but is believed to be responsible for several more. Forensic psychologist McCay Vernon and journalist Marie Vernon tell Lindsey's story in stark detail and, by introducing the victims and their families before turning to Lindsey, allow it to creep up on readers like the serial killer's existence crept up on authorities. Lindsey's preference in victims--prostitutes, many of them addicts--greatly aided his elusiveness. When a crackhead streetwalker went missing, it wasn't always noticed right away--hey, those girls got in strange cars all the time. Still, the Vernons' portraits of loving families left behind and their harrowing stories of how the victims entered the netherworld of crack and paid sex evoke real sympathy. A fine true-crime thriller, heinous and bloody and awfully well told. Mike Tribby
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