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Luke Karamazov

Conrad Hilberry
Foreword by Emanuel Tanay, M.D.		 Was it because they were subconsciously trying to kill the drunken, violent man that was their father that brothers Luke Karamazov and Tommy Searl from Kalamazoo became serial murderers?
Addressing this and other questions, author Conrad Hilberry presents an unusually vivid and detailed portrait of two contrasting psychological types in this account. In 1964, Luke confessed to a five-week murder spree in which he killed five men. Tommy was convicted of the rape and murder of four women in 1972.
Hilberry investigates the relationship between the brothers, as well as their feelings about their parents, about the prison staff, and about the woman who has been married to each of them. With the drama of fiction, the resulting story is bizarre, somewhat grisly, but always psychologically revealing.		 "In this well-written account of a psychopathic personality, the author is probing our common humanity, especially its darker side."—Michigan Historical Review
 
Great Lakes Books Series

$22.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-1856-8

190 pages

1987