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**A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF.** When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree -- the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime -- were as relevant in the so-called Age of Innocence as they are today. Jesse Pomeroy was outwardly repellent in appearance, with a gruesome "dead" eye; inside, he was deformed beyond imagining. A sexual sadist of disturbing precocity, he satisfied his atrocious appetites by abducting and torturing his child victims. But soon, the teenager's bloodlust gave way to another obsession: murder. Harold Schechter, whose true-crime masterpieces are "well-documented nightmares for anyone who dares to look" (__Peoria Journal Star__), brings his acclaimed mix of page-turning storytelling, brilliant insight, and fascinating historical documentation to __Fiend__ -- an unforgettable account from the annals of American crime.

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Author

Schechter, Harold

Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781476729138

Category

history

Subjects

True Crime, Memoir, Social Science

Rating

3.76 / 5 (723 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14