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Book Review of The Yale Murder: The Compelling True Narrative of the Fatal Romance of Bonnie Garland and Richard Herrin

The Yale Murder: The Compelling True Narrative of the Fatal Romance of Bonnie Garland and Richard Herrin
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Richard Herrin was a poverty-haunted youth from the Los Angeles ghetto who came to Yale on a scholarship. Bonnie Garland was the lovely daughter of wealth and privilege, who came to Yale as her birthright.
In Yale's socially and sexually permissive atmosphere, this inwardly tormented young man and this sheltered young woman plunged into an intensely romantic affair that seemed to conquer all the odds - until the night a savage act of violence turned love's young dream into the nightmare of horror that still shocks the nation! A true story - The Fatal Romance of Bonnie Garland and Richard Herrin