Son
Subtitle: a psychopath and his victims
By: Jack Olsen ; foreword by Gregg Olsen
Contributors: Olsen, Gregg, author of foreword
Edition: First Scribner trade paperback edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9781501119040
Subjects: Rapists; Mothers and sons; Revenge; Biography; Pathological Psychology
Description: "For more than two years, a rapist prowled the night streets of the homey, All-American city of Spokane, Washington, terrorizing women, sparking a run on gun stores, and finally causing one newspaper to offer a reward--the calls taken by the distinguished managing editor himself, Gordon Coe. In March 1981, luck and inspired police work at last produced an arrest, and Spokane shuddered. The suspect was clean cut and conservative ... and Gordon Coe's son. For eighteen months, Jack Olsen researched the cases of Fred and Ruth Coe to try to learn not only what happened within that family, but how and why. He interviewed more than 150 people and built up a portrait not only of that extraordinary family, but of the mind of a psychopath. And searching the memories of the women in Fred Coe's life, he unearthed a most horrifying question: What is it like to love and live with a man for years--and then discover he is a psychopathic criminal?"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: With a new foreword.