A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town by Siegel, Barry
A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town by Siegel, Barry

A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town

A mother's search for the son she gave up uncovers terrifying secrets in a Minnesota town in...
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A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town by Siegel, Barry

A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town

BD$37.54
A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town by Siegel, Barry

A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town

BD$37.54
Author: Barry Siegel
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A mother's search for the son she gave up uncovers terrifying secrets in a Minnesota town in this "masterfully depicted true-crime tale" (Publishers Weekly).

In 1962, Jerry Sherwood gave up her newborn son, Dennis, for adoption. Twenty years later, she set out to find him--only to discover he had died before his fourth birthday. The immediate cause was peritonitis, but the coroner had never decided the mode of death, writing "deferred" rather than indicate accident, natural causes, or homicide. This he did even though the autopsy photos showed Dennis covered from head to toe in ugly bruises, his clenched fists and twisted facial expression suggesting he had died writhing in pain.

Harold and Lois Jurgens, a middle-class, churchgoing couple in picturesque White Bear Lake, Minnesota, had adopted Dennis and five other foster children. To all appearances, they were a normal midwestern family, but Jerry suspected that something sinister had happened in the Jurgens household. She demanded to know the truth about her son's death.

Why did authorities dismiss evidence that marked Dennis as an endangered child? Could Lois Jurgens's brother, a local police lieutenant, have interfered in the investigation? And most disturbing of all, why had so many people who'd witnessed Lois's brutal treatment of her children stay silent for so long? Determined to find answers, local detectives and prosecutors rebuilt the case brick by brick, finally exposing the shocking truth behind a nightmare in suburbia.

A finalist for the Edgar Award, A Death in White Bear Lake is "a distinguished entry in the annals of crime documentary," and a vivid portrait of the all-American town that harbored a sadistic killer (The Washington Post).

Author: Barry Siegel
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 09/26/2017
Pages: 530
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9781504047579

About the Author
Barry Siegel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of seven books. Born in St. Louis and raised in Los Angeles, he joined the Los Angeles Times in 1976 as a staff writer and became a roving national correspondent in 1980. His articles have garnered dozens of honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, two PEN Center USA West Literary Awards in Journalism, the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, and the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award. In 2003, Siegel left the Los Angeles Times to become founding director of the literary journalism program at the University of California, Irvine. His books include the Chumash County trilogy of legal thrillers; the Edgar Award finalist A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town (1990); and, most recently, Manifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom (2013).

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