The Class Project: How To Kill a Mother: The True Story of Canada's Infamous Bathtub Girls

Bob Mitchell

ISBN 10: 1552639290 / ISBN 13: 9781552639290

Published by Key Porter Books, 2008

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Paperback, 356 pages, NOT ex-library. A good copy with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, with secure, undamaged binding. Yellowed page edges; foreign price in pen inside rear cover. Moderately bent tips of corners of covers and first & last pages. Shelfworn cover with rubbed edges and short creases; blacked-out price. Spine remains free of vertical creases. -- On January 18, 2003, police - alerted by a frantic 911 call from a distraught pair of teenage sisters at their suburban Toronto home - arrived to find the girls' mother dead in the bathtub in what authorities assumed was an alcohol-related 'accidental drowning'. In the months that followed, however, police discovered that the teens had revealed a very different - and disturbing - story to a close group of friends about what 'really' happened to their mother in the bathtub. The emerging story suggested that perhaps investigators had been premature in ruling the death an accident. The sisters would overnight become the stars of a sensational eight-week murder trial that would rank among the most notorious in Canadian judicial history - the first sisters ever to be on trial for matricide. Veteran Toronto Star crime journalist Bob Mitchell was there every step of the way. He is the only reporter with exclusive and full co-operation from homicide investigators and crown prosecutors, but also from the girls' own defense team providing insights into the crime. The book is a spellbinding but chilling insider's look into the minds of two cold-blooded killers and the dysfunctional world in which they lived.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Class Project: How To Kill a Mother: The True Story of Canada's Infamous Bathtub Girls
• Publisher: Key Porter Books
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1552639290
• ISBN 13: 9781552639290
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The Class Project investigates the incredible murder of a mother by her two teenaged daughters. Author Bob Mitchell details the murder trial and provides a troubling look at the youth culture that not only supported the two sisters but encouraged them to commit the crime and then revel in their secret for almost a year. Through interviews with witnesses, Mitchell reveals the world in which the girls lived, exploring the social and psychological elements that influenced their actions.