| My Sweet Angel: The True Story of Lacey Spears, the Seemingly Perfect Mother Who Murdered Her Son in Cold Blood Contributor(s): Glatt, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1250136342 ISBN-13: 9781250136343 Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: October 2017 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General - Biography & Autobiography | Criminals & Outlaws |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 4.2" W x 6.8" (0.50 lbs) 480 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Mommy blogger Lacey Spears made headlines when she was charged with the murder of her five-year-old son, Garnett. Prosecutors alleged that she had poisoned him with high concentrations of salt through his stomach tube. How could a mother do such a thing to her own son? This is the shocking true story. To the outside world Lacey had seemed like a loving, concerned mother, regularly posting updates on social media about her son's harrowing medical problems. But in reality, Lacey was a textbook case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. From the time he was an infant, Lacey deliberately made Garnett sick to elicit sympathy from medical professionals as well as her hundreds of followers on Facebook, Twitter, and her own blog. When a Westchester County jury found her guilty of killing Garnett in April 2015, she was sentenced to twenty years to life in prison. My Sweet Angel is the definitive account--featuring interviews with Lacey's family, the investigators who broke the case, even Lacey herself--of an extraordinary case that shocked the world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Glatt, John: - English-born John Glatt is the author of Lost and Found, Secrets in the Cellar, Playing with Fire, and many other bestselling books of true crime. He has more than 30 years of experience as an investigative journalist in England and America. Glatt left school at 16 and worked a variety of jobs--including tea boy and messenger--before joining a small weekly newspaper. He freelanced at several English newspapers, then in 1981 moved to New York, where he joined the staff for News Limited and freelanced for publications including Newsweek and the New York Post. His first book, a biography of Bill Graham, was published in 1981, and he published For I Have Sinned, his first book of true crime, in 1998. He has appeared television and radio programs all over the world, including Dateline NBC, Fox News, Current Affair, BBC World, and A&E Biography. He and his wife Gail divide their time between New York City, the Catskill Mountains and London. |