Lambs To The Slaughter
May 2010 · Random House Australia
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Inside the depraved mind of child killer, Derek Ernest Percy.
Young. White. High IQ. Middle-class family. Naval rating. A portrait of a yuppie success story? No. A portrait of child killer, Derek Ernest Percy. In this definitive, graphically chilling account of Percy's life, a man dubbed by a prison officer as 'Australia's answer to Hannibal Lecter', award-winning true-crime author Debi Marshall applies her investigative journalism skills to a forensic examination of the crimes, the man and his modus operandi. Informed by exclusive material never before seen - poignant and insightful interviews with Percy's mother, victims’ families, psychiatrists, police officers and former colleagues - Marshall also takes us on her personal journey as she seeks to unravel the truth about the monster whose lonely, idiosyncratic character has deceived the best psychiatric minds for 40 years.
Is Derek Percy responsible for Australia's worst unsolved child abductions and murders? Is he mad - or just bad?
Young. White. High IQ. Middle-class family. Naval rating. A portrait of a yuppie success story? No. A portrait of child killer, Derek Ernest Percy. In this definitive, graphically chilling account of Percy's life, a man dubbed by a prison officer as 'Australia's answer to Hannibal Lecter', award-winning true-crime author Debi Marshall applies her investigative journalism skills to a forensic examination of the crimes, the man and his modus operandi. Informed by exclusive material never before seen - poignant and insightful interviews with Percy's mother, victims’ families, psychiatrists, police officers and former colleagues - Marshall also takes us on her personal journey as she seeks to unravel the truth about the monster whose lonely, idiosyncratic character has deceived the best psychiatric minds for 40 years.
Is Derek Percy responsible for Australia's worst unsolved child abductions and murders? Is he mad - or just bad?
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Steven Thompson
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12 April 2014
This man if still alive should never be let out. I would have been around the same ages as some of the victims. This is why we watch our children like guardian angels today. Scum.
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BATMAN SARAH
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17 July 2020
Stellar book. Horrific crime. As always Marshall brings an empathy and warmth to a difficult subject matter and brings one of Australia's most perverse killers into your reality. Be warned. He will stay with you.
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Paul OBrien
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5 July 2013
Cant believe the incompetence and empathy of Police and lawyers helping him get away with these horrible crimes.
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About the author
Debi Marshall is a journalist and author who lives in Hobart. She has written a number of biographies and true crime titles, including The House of Hancock: The Rise and Rise of Gina Rinehart, Justice In Jeopardy: The unsolved murder of baby Deidre Kennedy and Killing For Pleasure: the definitive story of the Snowtown serial killings.
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