The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation Contributor(s): Bowden, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802147305 ISBN-13: 9780802147301 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press OUR PRICE: $24.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General |
Dewey: 364.152 |
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.30 lbs) 304 pages |
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Publisher Description: On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyon, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C. As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing. The investigation was shelved, and mystery endured. Then, in 2013, a cold case squad detective found something he and a generation of detectives had missed. It pointed them toward a man named Lloyd Welch, then serving time for child molestation in Delaware. As a cub reporter for a Baltimore newspaper, Mark Bowden covered the frantic first weeks of the story. In The Last Stone, he returns to write its ending. Over months of intense questioning and extensive investigation of Welch's sprawling, sinister Appalachian clan, five skilled detectives learned to sift truth from determined lies. How do you get a compulsive liar with every reason in the world to lie to tell the truth? The Last Stone recounts a masterpiece of criminal interrogation, and delivers a chilling and unprecedented look inside a disturbing criminal mind. |