The Kirtland Massacre: The True and Terrible Story of the Mormon Cult Murders
by Cynthia Stalter Sassé (Sasse); Peggy Murphy Widder
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1556113099
- ISBN 13
- 9781556113093
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About This Item
In removable protective cover.
302 p.; ill.; contains index.
Illustrated with both photographs and diagrams (pp. 161-174).
From dust jacket:
Neighbors in rural Kirtland, Ohio, welcomed Jeffrey Lundgren when he, his wife Alice and their four children rented a rundown farmhouse. After a group of devout, often attractive, and college-educated young men and women, formerly from the Reorganized Church of the Latter-Day Saints, moved in, residents assumed they were starting some sort of commune. But under Lundgren's warped leadership, these people nurtured an apocalyptic vision at odds with true Mormon beliefs that would ultimately lead to the kidnapping and murder of an entire family, including three small children.
Lundgren ruled his group dictatorial powers. He led the men through paramilitary exercises in preparation for the violent takeover of the Kirtland Temple, and the women through bizarre sexual rituals. Nightly harangues focused on a "blood sacrifice" that had to occur before the cult members could gain the Promised Land.
Co-authored by a prosecutor of the case, here is the shocking inside story of the forces that drove the Lundgrens and their followers to cold-blooded, ritualistic execution, as well as the minute-by-minute enactment of the crime itself, the pursuit, arrest, prosecution, and conviction.
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- Bookseller
- The Mortuary Korps (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000028
- Title
- The Kirtland Massacre
- Author
- Cynthia Stalter Sassé (Sasse); Peggy Murphy Widder
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1556113099
- ISBN 13
- 9781556113093
- Publisher
- Donald I. Fine
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- September, 1991
- Keywords
- Jeffrey Don Lundgren; Dennis and Cheryl Avery; Ohio; case study; murder; killer; cult; Mormons; USA; true crime; criminal investigation; autographed; photographic; illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime; Biography / Autobiography; Cults;
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