
Rampage
Bloodlands collection
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Narrated by:
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Steven Weber
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By:
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Harold Schechter
In 1949, things like this just didn’t happen: A quiet New Jersey resident took a morning walk with a 9 mm Luger pistol. In twelve minutes he murdered thirteen neighbors...and then went back to bed.
Howard Unruh went from obscurity to infamy overnight. Even after his obsessive diaries were discovered - a catalogue of simmering rage, petty grievances, and sexual repression - the anomalous crime seemed incomprehensible. Succeeding decades would confirm that Unruh’s “Walk of Death” was just the beginning. The prototype for the modern mass murderer, he would usher in a new age of violence in America.
Rampage is part of Bloodlands, a chilling collection of short addictive historical narratives from bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter. Spanning a century in our nation’s murderous past, Schechter resurrects nearly forgotten tales of madmen and thrill-killers that dominated the most sensational headlines of their day.
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Decent, but not enthralling.
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Repressed homosexuality, experiences during the conflict of WWII, and assorted petty grievances against his neighbors simmered for years until finally exploding in a cold, meticulous series of killings that would thoroughly destroy the relative peace of Camden, NJ.
Considered the face of modern mass murder, Unruh had no apparent interest in committing suicide at the end of his bloody rampage, nor any plan to be killed by the police. He simply wanted to kill the people he perceived as being aligned against him or of having committed one slight or another, and once Unruh started, he didn't seem interested in stopping until he had no choice but to do so.
The descriptions of the murderer's flat affect and calm demeanor both during the rampage and during the subsequent questioning, while a bullet remained lodged in his thigh, were unnerving in a way I can't quite put into words.
Steven Weber's narration was as high quality as it has been for the rest of the Bloodlands stories, and I would love to hear him narrating further true crime audiobooks and even documentaries.
An Unnerving Act Of Monstrous Violence
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I was so bored.
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Interesting
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another good one
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Would have been better for everybody if he had just been executed immediately after being caught. I have no doubt that the gay disease in his mind, conflicting with his Christian values, drove him to lunacy and made him commit those horrible crimes.
Very disturbing indeed.
Disturbing (SPOILERS!)
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Informative and interesting. Adds a narrative to historic true crime events. The entire series is good.
true crime
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A detailed accounting
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