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Episode: 50 States Of Murder The New Historical True Crime Collection From Harold Schechter
Description: Harold SchechterOnly the sex-and-drug-fueled, drop-out culture of hippie-era southern California, with its occult dabblings and nothing-is-forbidden philosophy, could have produced the Manson murders. The barren landscape of Nebraska was not just the historical setting for the 1950s killing spree of the young outlaw-lovers Charlie Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, but the outward projection of their harsh, empty lives. America’s dean of true crime Harold Schecter has penned a definitive study of crime that reflects the typical (or stereotypical) traits associated with the state where it took place. Rather than rehash the details of such overly familiar horrors, in 50 STATES...