The Slasher killings
Subtitle: a Canadian sex-crime panic, 1945-1946
By: Patrick Brode.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814334485
Subjects: Sears, Ronald, -- d. 1956; Serial murderers -- Ontario -- Windsor; Gays -- Crimes against -- Ontario -- Windsor; Gays -- Social conditions -- Ontario -- Windsor; Windsor (Ont.) -- History -- 20th century
Notes: "A Painted Turtle book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Victory; title: Panic; title: "When in doubt throw him in"; title: The root of the panic; title: Interesting persons; title: Return of the Slasher; title: Arrest and redemption; title: An avenging force; title: First trial : "disgusting details"; title: "Not British justice"; title: A most unusual young man; title: Third trial : a newspaper conviction; title: The marketplace of fear; title: The cost of panic.