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

By:

Hanlon, Robert E, 1957- [Author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: 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

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780809332632
9781299745568

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Electronic Books.

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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	HV6248.35 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn856411610

Includes bibliographies and index.

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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