Making a Monster : Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston /
Dawn Keetley.
- Amherst and Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Preface -- Chronology -- Introduction: Becoming monstrous -- Crimes -- On trial -- "The mark of the meat market" -- "Dime novel Pomeroy" -- "A moral monster" -- The scourge of smallpox -- Epilogue. Abused as a child? -- Notes -- Index.
9781613765142
Pomeroy, Jesse Harding, 1859-1932.
Serial murderers--Psychology. Violence in children--Massachusetts--Boston--Case studies. Juvenile homicide--Massachusetts--Boston--Case studies.