Life Without Mercy: Jake Beard, Joseph Paul Franklin and the Rainbow Murders
Echols, Ralph Kennedy Ralph Kennedy Echols,
ISBN 10: 0692280332 ISBN 13: 9780692280331
Published by Kennedy Books -, 2014
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On June 25, 1980, Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were hitchhiking in West Virginia, headed to the Rainbow Family Gathering in the Monongahela National Forest. They accepted a ride from a soft spoken young man driving a Chevy Nova. They never made it to the Rainbow festival. The young women made the mistake of admitting to Joseph Paul Franklin that they did not disapprove of interracial dating. Franklin, a racist serial killer, murdered Nancy and Vicki and left their bodies on a remote mountainside in Pocahontas County. He had committed 18 other murders before that, all of them racially motivated. Twelve years later, despite repeated confessions from Franklin, a local man, Jacob Wilson Beard, was charged with the killings, which had come to be known as "The Rainbow Murders." Beard was convicted of those killings and sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of parole. "Life Without Mercy," as they call it in West Virginia. Written with the cooperation of Jake Beard and Joseph Paul Franklin, Life Without Mercy is the story of the Rainbow murders, the perversion of justice and one man's five and a half year struggle to get out of prison and clear his name. If it could happen to Jake Beard, it could happen to anyone.
About the Author: Ralph Kennedy Echols is a Baby Boomer, born in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a graduate of Georgia State University (Political Science) and the University of Illinois (TESOL). Echols served in the 61st Medical Battalion, US Army, in Vietnam. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in South Korea (TB Control and English Language Teacher, '72-74). Echols currently lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he is completing work on his biography of serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin.
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Title: Life Without Mercy: Jake Beard, Joseph Paul ...
Publisher: Kennedy Books -
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good