{"product_id":"close-to-home-sexual-abusers-and-serial-killers-memoir-and-murder-9781643885483","title":"Close to Home: Sexual Abusers and Serial Killers, Memoir and Murder","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Janine O'Neill\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Luminare Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Luminare Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Murder - Serial Killers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn January 9, 2002, twelve-year-old Ashley Pond left her family's apartment in Oregon City, Oregon, to catch her bus to school. \u003cem\u003eShe vanished. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAshley loved her single-parent mother, but she hated her drinking, and the father figures in her life had come and gone. So she had learned to rely on her friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecently, however, things had become complicated: when she disappeared, many people believed she'd simply run away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Janine O'Neill had prosecuted crimes against children in Oregon City for seven years. She knew, with absolute certainty, that a twelve-year-old in that community would never vanish unless something had gone terribly wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen, another girl vanished, and the son of a self-proclaimed serial killer identified himself as the prime suspect in both disappearances. O'Neill became obsessed with the story-so obsessed she eventually quit her fulltime job and set off on a multistate search into the past with one overriding question: Could anything be scarier than what the public believed had happened to these girls?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe answer, she learned, was yes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Luminare Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45127028506775,"sku":"9781643885483","price":1535.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781643885483.webp?v=1768553656","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/close-to-home-sexual-abusers-and-serial-killers-memoir-and-murder-9781643885483","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}