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Sudden Fury: A True Story of Adoption and Murder
Sudden Fury A True Story of Adoption and Murder Author:Leslie Walker Bob and Kay Swartz created a family by adopting three children, two of them older boys who had been in and out of foster homes for years. In 1984, one son, Larry, murdered his parents. Walker, a Baltimore reporter, shows the ensuing investigation and trial, as well as the lives of the family members before and after the crime. The focus in on La... more »rry -- his sad early childhood, his conflicts with his parents, and his lawyers' attempts to salvage what they could of his life. This could be an incisive portrayal of a family tearing apart, but the author's sympathies are too overwhelmingly with Larry. Although the parents were strict and strongly disciplined the children, they hardly appear to have been so abusive that the crime could be justified, as is hinted here« less