Survived by one : the life and mind of a family mass murderer / Robert E. Hanlon.
2013
HV6248.O35 H36 2013
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Title
Survived by one : the life and mind of a family mass murderer / Robert E. Hanlon.
Author
ISBN
0809332639 (electronic bk.)
9780809332632 (electronic bk.)
1299745563 (electronic bk.)
9781299745568 (electronic bk.)
9780809332625 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0809332620 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780809332632 (electronic bk.)
1299745563 (electronic bk.)
9781299745568 (electronic bk.)
9780809332625 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0809332620 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Published
Carbondale ; Edwardsville : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
ebc1354664
Call Number
HV6248.O35 H36 2013
System Control No.
(OCoLC)856411610
Summary
On November 8, 1985, 18-year-old Tom Odle brutally murdered his parents and three siblings in the small southern Illinois town of Mount Vernon, sending shockwaves throughout the nation. The murder of the Odle family remains one of the most horrific family mass murders in U.S. history. Odle was sentenced to death and, after seventeen years on death row, expected a lethal injection to end his life. However, Illinois governor George Ryan's moratorium on the death penalty in 2000, and later commutation of all death sentences in 2003, changed Odle's sentence to natural life. The commu.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
Mother and son
Discipline, deprivation, and resentment
Beatings, chains, and fifth grade
Cycle of violence
"I was doing really well"
Dead inside
Murder : November 8, 1985
Arrest, confession, and county jail
On trial for life
Life on death row
Moratorium and commutation
Atonement.
Mother and son
Discipline, deprivation, and resentment
Beatings, chains, and fifth grade
Cycle of violence
"I was doing really well"
Dead inside
Murder : November 8, 1985
Arrest, confession, and county jail
On trial for life
Life on death row
Moratorium and commutation
Atonement.
Source of Description
Print version record.
Series
Elmer H. Johnson and Carol Holmes Johnson series in criminology.
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