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Watching the devil dance : how a spree killer slipped through the cracks of the criminal justice system
- Title
- Watching the devil dance : how a spree killer slipped through the cracks of the criminal justice system / Will Toffan.
- Author
- Toffan, Will
- Publication
- Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2020]
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 180 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "In June 1966, Matthew Charles Lamb took his uncle's shotgun and wandered down Ford Blvd. At the end of the bloody night, two teenagers lay dead, with multiple others injured after an unprovoked shooting spree. In his investigation into Lamb's story, William Toffan pieces together the troubled childhood and the history of violence that culminated in the young man's dubious distinction as Canada's first known spree killer--at which point the story becomes, the author writes 'too strange for fiction.' Traveling from the border city streets, to the courtroom, to the Oak Ridge rehabilitation center, and finally the Rhodesian army, Watching the Devil Dance is both a thrilling narrative about an unbelievable true crime and an insightful analysis of the 1960s criminal justice system."--
- Subjects
- Mass murder
- Mass shootings
- Criminal justice, Administration of
- Spree murderers
- Ontario
- History
- Lamb, Matthew Charles, 1948-1976
- Criminal justice, Administration of > Ontario > History > 20th century
- Biographies
- Mass murder > Ontario > Windsor > History > 20th century
- Mass shootings > Ontario > Windsor > History > 20th century
- 1900-1999
- Ontario > Windsor
- Spree murderers > Ontario > Windsor > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-180).
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-3726
- ISBN
- 9781771963251
- 1771963255
- OCLC
- 1117538889
- Author
- Toffan, Will, author.
- Title
- Watching the devil dance : how a spree killer slipped through the cracks of the criminal justice system / Will Toffan.
- Publisher
- Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2020]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-180).
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Toffan, Will. Watching the devil dance. Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, 2020 1771963263 9781771963268 (OCoLC)1151847414
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-3726