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Survived by one the life and mind of a family mass murderer / Robert E. Hanlon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Elmer H. Johnson and Carol Holmes Johnson series in criminologyPublication details: Carbondale ; Edwardsville : Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780809332632
  • 9781299745568
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV6248 .S878 2013
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Contents:
Mother and son -- Discipline, deprivation, and resentment -- Beatings, chains, and fifth grade -- Cycle of violence -- "I was doing really well" -- Dead inside -- Murder : November 8, 1985 -- Arrest, confession, and county jail -- On trial for life -- Life on death row -- Moratorium and commutation -- Atonement.
Subject: On November 8, 1985, 18-year-old Tom Odle brutally murdered his parents and three siblings in the small southern Illinois town of Mount Vernon, sending shockwaves throughout the nation. The murder of the Odle family remains one of the most horrific family mass murders in U.S. history. Odle was sentenced to death and, after seventeen years on death row, expected a lethal injection to end his life. However, Illinois governor George Ryan's moratorium on the death penalty in 2000, and later commutation of all death sentences in 2003, changed Odle's sentence to natural life. The commu
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Introduction -- Mother and son -- Discipline, deprivation, and resentment -- Beatings, chains, and fifth grade -- Cycle of violence -- "I was doing really well" -- Dead inside -- Murder : November 8, 1985 -- Arrest, confession, and county jail -- On trial for life -- Life on death row -- Moratorium and commutation -- Atonement.

On November 8, 1985, 18-year-old Tom Odle brutally murdered his parents and three siblings in the small southern Illinois town of Mount Vernon, sending shockwaves throughout the nation. The murder of the Odle family remains one of the most horrific family mass murders in U.S. history. Odle was sentenced to death and, after seventeen years on death row, expected a lethal injection to end his life. However, Illinois governor George Ryan's moratorium on the death penalty in 2000, and later commutation of all death sentences in 2003, changed Odle's sentence to natural life. The commu

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