Finding Susan
Edition: 1st Edition edition
Publisher: Southern Illinois University
Published: October 7, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780809325191
Subjects: True Crime; Maryland; True Crime / Espionage; Social Science; USA; Abuse - Domestic Partner Abuse; Murder - General; True Crime / Murder; Case studies; Women; Women's Studies - General; Murder; Abuse - General
First sentence: August 10, 1994, dawned promisingly.
Description: "Susan Hurley Harrison disappeared from upscale Ruxton, Maryland, on August 5, 1994. Her body was discovered in the woods of northern Maryland two years later and her death was ruled a homicide. Although Susan's case drew substantial media attention - including a spot on Unsolved Mysteries - no one, to date, has ever been charged with her murder. In piecing together a mosaic of Susan's final years, Moran grew to believe her sister was a victim of domestic violence." "Mirroring elements of high-profile cases from Laci Peterson to Nicole Brown Simpson, Finding Susan is one woman's chronicle of loss and remembrance that arrestingly details the helplessness experienced by families of missing persons and calls critical attention to our alarming blindness to domestic abuse. Including appendixes of domestic violence resources, Finding Susan serves as a guide for concerned family members and friends of at-risk women to help identify the warning signs of domestic abuse. Thirty-six photos and illustrations are a powerful complement to the volume."--Jacket.