Pre-Owned Brother's Blood: A Heartland Cain and Abel (Paperback)

Brother's Blood a "Whydunit" A story of true crime! Of a legal system that works! Justice served. An author's relentless quest to tell the story of one town's horror. A real-life episode of CSI, of reality television! Mystery & nonfiction readers will applaud. This is not just a story about a town in Iowa. It is a story of intrique, of wonder, of frustration, and horror. It touches on our base human emotions. We all wonder: How could he do that? Murder a brother, his sister-in-law, and his young niece and nephew as they slept in their beds? Jerry Mark was a Peace Corps volunteer, lawyer, 4-H leader, vice-president of his Cedar Falls High School senior class, and certainly a most likely to-succeed young man when he graduated in 1960. Sixteen years later he was convicted of four coldblooded execution-style murders of his own family. How could he? That's what Brother's Blood explores. Author Scott Cawelti knew Jerry Mark in high school, interviewed him in prison, observed his arrest, trial, and conviction with shock and horror. Brothers's Blood reveals a mind consumed with anger, revenge, jealousy, and greed. This book is not a "whodunit" but a "whydunit." This account engages readers with the actual facts: the killer's cross-country motorcycle ride, the landmark investigation in which the murderer was fingered in ten days, the trial where circumstantial evidence was used to make a powerful case against him, and his appeals which continued for three decades. Jerry Mark remains in Iowa's maximum security prison, still insisting on his innocence. Brother's Blood reveals what he did and why, in convincing and unforgettable detail.