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On a chilly, gray autumn afternoon in 1984, a patrolman was dispatched to an inner-city tenement in Auburn, Maine to investigate the report of a possible fire. What he found inside the building's smoke-filled, second-story apartment was not a fire but something far more horrifying -- the charred body of a 4-year-old girl, Angela Palmer, who had been stuffed into the oven of a kitchen stove and cooked to death. The discovery traumatized the community and shocked the country. The ensuing murder prosecution of the youngster's mother, Cynthia Palmer, and her boyfriend, John Lane, cast a searching light into the shadows of a secret world in which children and women suffer violence and sexual predation at the hands of those who are supposed to love and protect them.
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A Google user
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April 15, 2012
Sorry ppl I ment cynthia i never met her so I only got her name from the bookmy parents never speak of her I am dyong to read the book
Pauline Yanez
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April 26, 2014
Having the memory of the event, this help me get more of an inside view. Can't drive on that street without having a prayer in mind for that precious baby.
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December 22, 2011
I wasn't born when it happened but heard about it n I'm near the middle and I can't stop reading
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