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From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott committed at least twenty murders on a chicken ranch outside of Los Angeles. His nephew, Sanford Clark, was held captive there from the age of thirteen to fifteen, and was the sole surviving victim of the killing spree. Here, acclaimed crime writer Anthony Flacco--using never-before-heard information from Sanford's son, Jerry Clark--tells the real story behind the case that riveted the nation. Forced by Northcott to take part in the murders, Sanford carried tremendous guilt all his life. Yet despite his youth and the trauma, he helped gain some justice for the dead and their families by testifying at Northcott's trial--which led to his conviction and execution. It was a shocking story, but perhaps the most shocking part of all is the extraordinarily ordinary life Clark went on to live as a decorated WWII vet, a devoted husband of fifty-five years, a loving father, and a productive citizen. In dramatizing one of the darkest cases in American crime, Flacco constructs a riveting psychological drama about how Sanford was able to detoxify himself from the evil he'd encountered, offering the ultimately redemptive story of one man's remarkable ability to survive a nightmare and emerge intact.

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Anthony Flacco is the New York Times and international bestselling author of Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six, which won the USA Book News Award for Best Autobiography of 2013. His Tiny Dancer was selected by Reader's Digest as their 2005 Editor's Choice for the magazine's commemorative 1000th Issue, and he received the 2009 USA Book News True Crime Award for The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders. Flacco's The Last Nightingale, book one of the Nightingale Detective series, was originally released to acclaimed reviews, including an NYT rave, and was nominated by the International Thriller Writers (ITW) as one of the top five original paperback thrillers for 2007. Anthony resides in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Jerry Clark retired as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2011 after twenty-seven years in law enforcement, including careers as a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Clark is an associate professor of criminal justice at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he is also co-owner of Clark & Wick Investigations LLC and Fisher Security. David Lee Garver (SAG-AFTRA/AEA) is an audiobook narrator, an award-winning actor, and a lifelong musician. He started performing at an early age in children's and community theaters in the Midwest before embarking on a professional career in film, television, and stage. He brings decades of performance experience into the booth, and feels fortunate every day to work in a medium that marries all of his skills. His voice has a gritty yet warm quality, and is uniquely suited to a variety of books and characters. Some of his favorite genres include true crime, legal drama, mystery, romance, and especially music biography.

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