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Panic

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Panic

By: Harold Schechter
Narrated by: Steven Weber
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About this listen

During the Depression, economic anxieties found an outlet in a series of child murders that triggered an irrational nationwide hysteria: pedophiliac psychopaths were overrunning the country.

As America was brought to rage and fury by the press and the FBI, lynch mobs took to the streets, reason gave way to doomsday scenarios, and one father was even driven to murder his three daughters to “save them” from a degenerate crime wave. A terrifying cautionary essay, Panic explores the combustible mix of unfounded fears, moral crusades, and the dangers of collective thinking.

Panic is part of Bloodlands, a chilling collection of short addictive historical narratives from bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter. Spanning a century in our nation’s murderous past, Schechter resurrects nearly forgotten tales of madmen and thrill-killers that dominated the most sensational headlines of their day.

©2018 Harold Schechter (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Americas Essays United States Crime Nonfiction Murder Rage Serial Killers True Crime

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Brilliant for all true crime fans!!
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SO interesting and cases I personally had never heard of before !

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Great story. Perfect time and length. Great narration. More of this please. These bite size audiobooks are great for just filling that 90 minutes. Like a more professional glossy podcast.

Simply brilliant

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