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Book Review of The Blooding

The Blooding
The Blooding
Author: Joseph Wambaugh
Genre: Nonfiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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THE MURDER HUNT THAT REVOLUTIONIZED MODERN CRIME DETECTION

Fifteen year old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near tht English village of Narbourough. Though a massive 150 man police dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved.
Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered.
But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annuals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found.