{"id":2180,"date":"2011-06-05T12:12:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T18:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2011-06-05T12:12:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T18:12:16","slug":"the-road-out-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2180","title":{"rendered":"“The Road Out Of Hell”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Wretched Recommendation from Aimee!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders<\/a>\"\"
\nby Anthony Flacco with Jerry Clark<\/strong>
\n<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Aimee’s Review:<\/p>\n

This book is about the case of California serial killer Gordon Stuart Northcott, who, with the unwilling assistance of his teenage nephew Sanford Clark (whom he brought to California from Canada for just that purpose with the complicity of Clark’s mother) raped, tortured and murdered at least 20 young boys on his isolated chicken ranch in the desert east of L.A.Very disturbing book. Especially so given the attitude of nearly everybody in the Northcott family. Just an example:Northcott had kidnapped a nine or ten-year-old boy named Walter Collins, whom he knew and whose mother he had met, and and kept him chained up in an empty chicken shed for over a week. During that week, Northcott’s mother, Sarah Louise, came to stay, ostensibly to help with some ailing birds. One evening while Sanford and Northcott were getting ready to eat dinner, Louise came storming into the house, furious.She had noticed her son making trips to the supposedly empty shed and had taken it upon herself to take the key and go inside to see what was in there. There she found the badly injured and terrorized Walter, and in talking with him she learned all about what was going on at the ranch.Louise’s fury was triggered not by the pitiful state of the young boy, but rather by the fact that Stuart (her son) had behaved so recklessly in kidnapping a boy whose family he knew. She then insisted that the boy must die immediately, and that furthermore each of them was to strike him with an ax, so none could squeal on the others without implicating himself. Louise herself led the way to the shed, and she struck the first two blows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds like a fascinating read! I’ll put that one on the morbid reading list immediately and I’ve added it to The Library Eclectica’s Maniacal Monsters<\/a> aisle. It’s available on Kindle<\/a> too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Wretched Recommendation from Aimee! The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders by Anthony Flacco with Jerry Clark Aimee’s Review: This book is about the case of California serial killer Gordon Stuart Northcott, who, with the unwilling assistance of his teenage nephew Sanford Clark (whom he brought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}