Survived By One

Author : Robert E. Hanlon,Thomas V Odle
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780809332632

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Survived by One by Robert E. Hanlon,Thomas V Odle Pdf

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 commutation of his death sentence was an epiphany for Odle. Prior to the commutation of his death sentence, Odle lived in denial, repressing any feelings about his family and his horrible crime. Following the commutation and the removal of the weight of eventual execution associated with his death sentence, he was confronted with an unfamiliar reality. A future. As a result, he realized that he needed to understand why he murdered his family. He reached out to Dr. Robert Hanlon, a neuropsychologist who had examined him in the past. Dr. Hanlon engaged Odle in a therapeutic process of introspection and self-reflection, which became the basis of their collaboration on this book. Hanlon tells a gripping story of Odle’s life as an abused child, the life experiences that formed his personality, and his tragic homicidal escalation to mass murder, seamlessly weaving into the narrative Odle’s unadorned reflections of his childhood, finding a new family on death row, and his belief in the powers of redemption. As our nation attempts to understand the continual mass murders occurring in the U.S., Survived by One sheds some light on the psychological aspects of why and how such acts of extreme carnage may occur. However, Survived by One offers a never-been-told perspective from the mass murderer himself, as he searches for the answers concurrently being asked by the nation and the world.

Author : Earl A. Grollman
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995-06-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0807027197

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Living When a Loved One Has Died by Earl A. Grollman Pdf

When someone you love dies, Earl Grollman writes, "there is no way to predict how you will feel. The reactions of grief are not like recipes, with given ingredients, and certain results. . . . Grief is universal. At the same time it is extremely personal. Heal in your own way." If someone you know is grieving, Living When a Loved One Has Died can help. Earl Grollman explains what emotions to expect when mourning, what pitfalls to avoid, and how to work through feelings of loss. Suitable for pocket or bedside, this gentle book guides the lonely and suffering as they move through the many facets of grief, begin to heal, and slowly build new lives.

Author : Ed Fortier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:36561426

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One Survived by Ed Fortier Pdf

Author : Lauren Tarshis
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545362689

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I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived #1) by Lauren Tarshis Pdf

The most terrifying events in history are brought vividly to life in this New York Times bestselling series! Ten-year-old George Calder can't believe his luck -- he and his little sister, Phoebe, are on the famous Titanic, crossing the ocean with their Aunt Daisy. The ship is full of exciting places to explore, but when George ventures into the first class storage cabin, a terrible boom shakes the entire boat. Suddenly, water is everywhere, and George's life changes forever. Lauren Tarshis brings history's most exciting and terrifying events to life in this New York Times bestselling series. Readers will be transported by stories of amazing kids and how they survived!

Author : Ron Franscell
Publisher : Fair Winds Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781610594943

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Delivered from Evil by Ron Franscell Pdf

A 12-year-old boy cowers in his closet while a lunatic killer slaughters his family . . . a nursing student unwittingly opens her home to the serial killer on her front porch . . . an 11-year-old girl drifts alone at sea on a flimsy cork raft for almost four days after a mass murderer kills her vacationing family aboard a chartered yacht . . . a brave firefighter suddenly finds himself in the crosshairs of a racist sniper almost nine stories above the ground . . . And, astonishingly, they all survived. From Howard Unruh’s 1949 shooting rampage through a quiet New Jersey neighborhood to Louisiana serial killer Derrick Todd Lee’s reign of terror in 2002, the corpses piled up and few lived to tell the horror. Now, award-winning journalist Ron Franscell explores the wounded hearts and minds of the ordinary people these monsters couldn’t kill. His mesmerizing accounts crackle with gritty details that put the reader in the midst of the carnage—and offer a front-row seat on the complex, painful process of surviving the rest of their haunted lives. In intimate, gripping prose, Franscell takes the reader on a pulse-pounding dash through the murky intersection of pure evil and the potency of the human spirit. This journey into the darkest corners of the American crime-scape is a penetrating work of literary journalism by a writer hailed as one of the most powerful new voices in true crime.

Author : Les Sweeney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578604205

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Only One Survived by Les Sweeney Pdf

Author : Victoria Cilliers
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781529020366

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I Survived by Victoria Cilliers Pdf

A chilling, eye-opening story of marriage and attempted murder, revealing the truth about a case that made headlines around the world. On Easter Sunday 2015, experienced skydiver Victoria Cilliers undertook a parachute jump, a gift from her husband, British army sergeant Emile Cilliers. Her parachutes failed to open and she plummeted 4,000 feet to the ground, sustaining life-threatening injuries. Miraculously, she survived. Then the police arrived at her door. Someone had tampered with her parachute and they suspected Emile. In I Survived Victoria describes how she fell for Emile, and how the charming man she thought she knew gradually revealed a darker side, chipping away at her self-worth until she found it impossible to sift truth from lies. Can she really believe that her husband – the father of their two young children – tried to kill her? As more shocking revelations come to light, and she has to face his trial and relentless media scrutiny, she struggles to come to terms with the past. Even a guilty verdict does not free her because Emile is not ready to let her go . . . Powerful and honest, I Survived is the story of a woman who was put through hell and yet found the strength to forge a new life for herself and her children.

Author : Lauren Tarshis
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545789745

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Five Epic Disasters (I Survived True Stories #1) by Lauren Tarshis Pdf

The New York Times-bestselling I Survived series expands to include this thrilling nonfiction exploration of five true stories, from the Titanic to the Henryville Tornadoes. REAL KIDS. REAL DISASTERS.From the author of the New York Times-bestselling I Survived series come five harrowing true stories of survival, featuring real kids in the midst of epic disasters.From a group of students surviving the 9.0 earthquake that set off a historic tsunami in Japan, to a boy nearly frozen on the prairie in 1888, these unforgettable kids lived to tell tales of unimaginable destruction -- and, against all odds, survival.Read their incredible stories:The Children’s Blizzard, 1888The Titanic Disaster, 1912The Great Boston Molasses Flood, 1919The Japanese Tsunami, 2011The Henryville Tornado, 2012

Author : Lisa Jackson
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496737434

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The Girl Who Survived by Lisa Jackson Pdf

In this deviously volatile, deliciously creepy thriller from the #1 New York Times bestseller, the lone survivor of a brutal family massacre must uncover the awful truth about the fateful night that left her forever marked… Has she already had her last chance to be the final girl? All her life, she’s been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing spree at her family’s Oregon cabin, Kara McIntyre is still searching for some kind of normal. But now, twenty years later, the past has come thundering back. Her brother, Jonas, who was convicted of the murders has unexpectedly been released from prison. The press is in a frenzy again. And suddenly, Kara is receiving cryptic messages from her big sister, Marlie—who hasn’t been seen or heard from since that deadly Christmas Eve when she hid little Kara in a closet with a haunting, life-saving command: Don’t make a sound. As people close to her start to die horrible deaths, Kara, who is slowly and surely unraveling, believes she is the killer’s ultimate target. Kara survived once. But will she survive again? How many times can she be the girl who survived?

Author : Klaus G. Förg
Publisher : Greenhill Books
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784385460

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I Somehow Survived by Klaus G. Förg Pdf

“The selection of remembered events from a cross section of Germans provides a very human account of instances in war.” —Firetrench The first in a series of books, I Somehow Survived is an extraordinary collection of true stories giving testimony to those who survived World War II. Based on interviews with numerous veterans from across the spectrum of wartime experience, the book documents and reflects upon one of the most gruesome times in history. From anti-partisan warfare in the French mountains and atrocities in East Prussia to the experience of a Norwegian concentration camp, the accounts include rarely heard stories from a range of people caught up in the war. With the distance of time, these survivors have been able to offer new perspectives on their experiences and expose truths they would not have dared admit several decades ago. German Army officers reveal their role in the Vercors and Kiev massacres. A Luftwaffe officer-applicant who never flew describes service on the ground. And a Norwegian woman writes of marrying a German Kriegsmarine while her mother was in a Norwegian concentration camp for political activity and her father was in hiding from the Gestapo. “I have no objection to your marrying him,” her father told her, “I just want them to give us our country back.” “It is always refreshing to hear the German side of the story. The recollections seem pretty open and candid, and the supporting photos help reassure one . . . fascinating stuff.” —A Question of Scale

Author : Eldon G. Chuinard
Publisher : Arthur H. Clark Company
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UOM:39015008017181

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Only One Man Died by Eldon G. Chuinard Pdf

Examines the medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Author : Marisabina Russo
Publisher : Atheneum
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015063287836

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Always Remember Me by Marisabina Russo Pdf

A family's survival of the Jewish Holocaust during World War II in Hitler's Germany.

Author : Robert Franklin Jackson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781796041286

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Not One Survived by Robert Franklin Jackson Pdf

In 1939, Agatha Christie wrote her most successful novel, one she said was the most difficult to write. It is the story of a madman who invited ten people to spend a holiday on an island off the Devon coast of England. They were lured by either a promise of employment or a chance to meet old friends. The madman’s real motive for the invitation was to have them murdered, which occurred. The title of Christie’s book was And Then There Were None. The author of The Blue of Portsmouth PD series decided to deviate from writing his own murder plot and instead made the decision to bring Christie’s victims from the island off the shore of England and have the murdered in New Hampshire. The Portsmouth PD detectives, led by Madison “Madi” March, were given the challenge to solve the murders. To give the book an authentic Agatha Christie flavor, Madi’s addled uncle, Henri Parrot, who believes he is the incarnation of Christie’s great detective, Hercule Poirot, is given a badge by Chief Bethany Van Dike and made an honorary sergeant. Surprisingly, Sgt. Henri Parrot has all the detective skills of Hercule Poirot and becomes the leading character of the story.

Author : Alexander Barmine
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787206922

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One Who Survived by Alexander Barmine Pdf

An astounding personal document and unique autobiography—the life story of a Russian now living in America who was once soldier, industrialist, and diplomat under the Red Star.

Author : Karen Spicer-Wolven
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781977250940

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Survived By No One? by Karen Spicer-Wolven Pdf

Angelika's obituary had to be wrong...In the summer of 2014, Angelika Harder-Russo passed quietly from this earth. Little did Karen Spicer-Wolven know that the search for Angelika’s family would help her survive her own darkest days and learn the true value of human connection. This story began based solely on the 82 letters and over 300 photos that Karen retrieved from the trash in Angelika’s home. As she tried to piece together Angelika’s life story, Karen learned that there are no “facts”—simply documented accounts of events recorded through someone else’s lens, which is what Angelika’s photos and letters provided: her version of life in post-WWII Germany; her perspective of her own romance, family conflict, survival and the fear and excitement of leaving Germany to become an American military wife. Survived by No One? is told through the eyes of a brave young mother who endured war, poverty and incredible heartache. Angelika survived it all, but who survived her? This book takes the reader on Karen’s journey through Angelika’s letters, photos, documents and eventually a trip to Bavaria, Germany, to finally share Angelika’s story with her family. It turns out that Angelika Harder-Russo has many "survivors."