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Blind Vengeance: The Roy Moody Mail Bomb Murders

Blind Vengeance: The Roy Moody Mail Bomb Murders

Jenkins, Ray

Paperback

CriminologyTrue Crime

ISBN10: 0820341010
ISBN13: 9780820341019
Publisher: Univ Of Georgia Pr
Published: Feb 28 2012
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Just days before Christmas 1989, bombs delivered through the U.S. mail exploded in two southern states, taking the lives of a federal judge in Alabama and a civil rights attorney in Georgia. The same week, two more deadly packages were intercepted en route to a federal courthouse and an office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Blind Vengeance is the riveting account of the frantic federal, state, and local investigations that ensued, eventually resulting in the arrest and conviction of Walter Leroy Moody Jr., a small-time con man who blamed society for his failures.

In-depth portraits of the victims and their killer show three men representative of the changing South: the privileged white man, Judge Robert Smith Vance of Birmingham, who saw the necessity of political changes; the black lawyer and city alderman, Robert Robinson of Savannah, who prevailed in a segregated society to become a respected professional figure; and the embittered lifelong criminal Roy Moody, who led a brooding, solitary life on the edges of society.

Ray Jenkins's research is based on new information from interviews, record searches, and unprecedented access to Moody's psychiatric profile. The result is a chilling exploration of the mind of a killer blinded by a desire for revenge.

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