Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders that America Forgot is a chilling, unflinching exploration of American crimes of the twentieth century and how one serial killer managed to slip through the cracks—until now.
In fall 1967, friends Linda Tomaszewski and Christine Rothschild are freshmen at the University of Wisconsin. The students in the hippie college town of Madison are letting down their hair—and their guards. But amid the peace rallies lurks a killer.
When Christine’s body is found, her murder sends shockwaves across college campuses, and the Age of Aquarius gives way to a decade of terror.
Linda knows the killer, but when police ignore her pleas, he slips away. For the next forty years, Linda embarks on a cross-country quest to find him. When she discovers a book written by the murderer’s mother, she learns Christine was not his first victim—or his last. The slayings continue, and a single perpetrator emerges: the Capital City Killer. As police focus on this new lead, Linda receives a disturbing note from the madman himself. Can she stop him before he kills again?
Revelation I don’t recall ever reading or hearing about the murders described in this true story. How can so many murders remain unsolved? This book is well written and well researched. I hope others will read it and pass it on.
Good Story It’s a good story but it can be difficult to follow, so I had to keep going back to reread parts. Also, I found it difficult to keep reading. But it was an interesting case, one of the few I’ve never read about before.
Thrilling true crime story, a welcome change from the usual Kindle First selections Usually my Kindle First selection is a toss up between the Mystery/Suspense/Thriller categories and while this book does fit into all of those categories too, when I saw it listed under True Crime, I was already pretty sure this would be my ultimate choice. The Thriller selection this month is first in a series, which I generally avoid, and the Suspense story line sounded too similar to hundreds of other books I’ve read. I enjoy non-fiction as well, and since this is based on a true story, I…