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Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679755821)
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xFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes "the most powerful and disturbing true crime narrative to appear since Truman Capote's In Cold Blood" (TIME)--a case that destroyed a family, engulfed a small town, and captivated an America obsessed by rumors of a satanic underground.
In 1988 Ericka and Julie Ingram began making a series of accusations of sexual abuse against their father, Paul Ingram, who was a respected deputy sheriff in Olympia, Washington. At first the accusations were confined to molestations in their childhood, but they grew to include torture and rape as recently as the month before. At a time when reported incidents of "recovered memories" had become widespread, these accusations were not unusual. What captured national attention in this case is that, under questioning, Ingram appeared to remember participating in bizarre satanic rites involving his whole family and other members of the sheriff's department. As Remembering Satan follows the increasingly bizarre accusations and confessions, the claims and counterclaims of police, FBI investigators, and mental health professionals, it gives us what is at once a psychological detective story and a domestic tragedy about what happens when modern science is subsumed by our most archaic fears.
Author: Lawrence Wright
ISBN-10: 0679755829
ISBN-13: 9780679755821
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 04/25/1995
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.07h x 5.05w x 0.60d
Review Citation(s):
Commonweal 12/06/2002 pg. 27
In 1988 Ericka and Julie Ingram began making a series of accusations of sexual abuse against their father, Paul Ingram, who was a respected deputy sheriff in Olympia, Washington. At first the accusations were confined to molestations in their childhood, but they grew to include torture and rape as recently as the month before. At a time when reported incidents of "recovered memories" had become widespread, these accusations were not unusual. What captured national attention in this case is that, under questioning, Ingram appeared to remember participating in bizarre satanic rites involving his whole family and other members of the sheriff's department. As Remembering Satan follows the increasingly bizarre accusations and confessions, the claims and counterclaims of police, FBI investigators, and mental health professionals, it gives us what is at once a psychological detective story and a domestic tragedy about what happens when modern science is subsumed by our most archaic fears.
Author: Lawrence Wright
ISBN-10: 0679755829
ISBN-13: 9780679755821
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 04/25/1995
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.07h x 5.05w x 0.60d
Review Citation(s):
Commonweal 12/06/2002 pg. 27
By Lawrence Wright
xLAWRENCE WRIGHT is a staff writer for The New Yorker, a playwright, and a screenwriter. He is the best-selling author of the novel, The End of October, and ten books of nonfiction, including Going Clear, God Save Texas, and The Looming Tower, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He and his wife are longtime residents of Austin, Texas.
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