The Want-Ad Killer (True Crime)
by Signet

	The Want-Ad Killer (True Crime)
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Book Description

After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death--using want ads to lure his young female victims.

And time after time, justice was thwarted by a killer whose twisted legal genius was matched only by his sick savagery.

Here, complete with the testimony of women who suffered his unspeakable sexual abuses and barely escaped with their lives, and of the police who at last put him behind bars, is one of the most shattering and thought-provoking true-crime stories of our time.

* Includes 8 pages of photographs
* From the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Small Sacrifices</i>, <i>Lust Killer</i>, <i>The Stranger Beside Me</i>, and <i>The I-5 Killer</i>

* "Rule has an instinct for suspense."--<i>Washington Post Book World</i>

* "Rule springs surprises and revelations with a novelist's skill."--<i>Seattle Times</i>

Reader Reviews

This is an early Ann Rule true crime story about Harvey Carignan who used the want ads to lure unsuspecting, young female victims.

Ann Rule goes back to the cases in Alaska where Carignan beat a hanging sentence on a technicality.

Carignan is a sociopath,but far from insane. He is intelligent and knows criminal law and constitutional rights well enough to have written papers on the subjects during an earlier stretch in prison.

The author defines the difference between a sociopath and a psychotic.

She mentions the possibility that Carignan may have been involved in the Piper kidnapping, although the evidence is weak.

The maps with the interesting markings showing some known burial sites gives rise to the concern that he vented his hatred of women far more times than has been known. The numerous unexplained markings loosely match some unsolved murders with similar M.O. in areas that Carignan passed through. He may have been an earlier version of a roaming killer much like Tommy Lynn Sells. One difference between Carignan and other notorious serial killers is the physical nature of Carignan, he was large,muscular and didn't shy away from fights with men.

"The Want-Ad Killer" may not be Ann Rule's best book, but it is fast-paced and an interesting choice of subject in Harvey Carignan.