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James Neff Unfinished Murder: The Capture of a Serial Rapist
Pocket 1996 0671731866 / 9780671731861 Paperback Fine
0671731866 From Publishers Weekly Between 1983 and 1988, Ronnie Shelton raped at least 30 women in the Cleveland area. Neff (Mobbed Up), a senior editor of Cleveland magazine, discovered, after Shelton's conviction, that he had committed rapes before 1983 and estimates the total number of his victims at nearly 100. In the course of his spree, Shelton was stopped or picked up by the police 15 times for offenses like peeping into windows, but the connection to the rapes was never made. In faulting the police, Neff's chief target is Lt. Lucie Duvall, head of the Sex Crimes Unit. Yet the book is less about the rapist or inept police work than about the phenomenon of 30 victims bonding together to support one another and to testify in court about their experiences. As an outcome of their action, the judge determined that Shelton should never be released and sentenced him to 3198 years in prison. For this vivid and memorable account, the author interviewed survivors, the police and Shelton himself. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal For five years, Ronnie Shelton terrorized Cleveland's West Side in a series of rapes and sexual assaults. His violent tendencies went unchecked for years as he managed to elude capture through a combination of luck, police ineptness, and an overburdened justice system. Neff presents the account of Shelton's crimes, capture, and trial in a crisp text filled with factual detail as well as psychological insight. Shelton was finally stopped as a result of the untiring work of a detective and the victims, who banded together to testify against him. The writing is well organized and skillful, and readers will be appalled not only by Shelton's crimes but by the five-year spell when he fell through the cracks unnoticed and undeterred. --Christine Moesch, Buffalo & Erie Cty. P.L., N.Y. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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