Real Life Evil - A True Crime Quickie (Book One)
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Real Life Evil - A True Crime Quickie is a compelling collection of two true crime short stories.
"Hiding in Plain Sight" is the chilling account of serial killer Jack Unterweger, one of the most clever, manipulative predators of the twentieth century...and the most dangerous.
"A Message from the Grave" examines the events surrounding the unsolved Gilgo Beach murders, a case which would spawn the largest murder investigation in Long Island, New York's history as an elusive serial killer continues to elude authorities.
Kim Cresswell
Kim Cresswell resides in Ontario, Canada. Trained as a legal assistant, Kim has been a story-teller all her life but took many detours including; working in legal and adult education before returning to her first love, writing. Her debut romantic thriller, REFLECTION, has won numerous awards: *RomCon's 2014 Readers' Crown Finalists (Romantic Suspense) *InD'tale Magazine's Rone Award Finalist (Suspense/Thriller) *UP Authors Fiction Challenge Winner (2013) *Silicon Valley's Romance Writers of America (RWA) "Gotcha!" Romantic Suspense Winner (2004) *Honourable Mention in Calgary's Romance Writers of America (RWA) The Writer's Voice Contest (2006) Kim's short novel thriller, LETHAL JOURNEY, was a finalist in From the Heart Romance Writers (FTHRW) Golden Gate Contest (2003) and more recently won RomCon's 2014 Readers' Crown (thriller/suspense). Her action-packed thrillers have been highly praised by reviewers and readers. As one reviewer said, "Buckle up, Hang on tight!" Kim recently entered the true crime writing arena. Real Life Evil - A True Crime Quickie (two short stories) was published in January 2014. You can read her latest true crime stories in Serial Killer Quarterly, a new quarterly e-magazine published by Grinning Man Press.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Kim Cresswell has written two short true crime stories written in factual journalistic style. The first is the story of the Vienna Woods Killer and tells of a series of crimes committed over a period of time in both Europe and the United States. The second is an unsolved story of women killed, dismembered and dumped in Long Island. Both are interesting and stories I had never heard before. It made me wonder again how one person can so easily take the life of another and what makes such people exist.
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Real Life Evil - A True Crime Quickie (Book One) - Kim Cresswell
About the Book
Real Life Evil - A True Crime Quickie (Book One) is a collection of two true crime short stories. This volume includes;
Hiding in Plain Sight
is the chilling account of serial killer Jack Unterweger, one of the most clever, manipulative predators of the twentieth century...and the most dangerous.
A Message from the Grave
examines the events surrounding the unsolved Gilgo Beach murders, a case which would spawn the largest murder investigation in Long Island, New York’s history as an elusive serial killer continues to elude authorities.
About the Author
Kim Cresswell resides in Ontario, Canada. Trained as a legal assistant, Kim has been a story-teller all her life but took many detours including; working in legal and adult education before returning to her first love, writing.
Her debut thriller, REFLECTION, has won numerous awards. UP Authors Fiction Challenge Winner (2013), Silicon Valley’s Romance Writers of America (RWA) Gotcha!
Romantic Suspense Winner (2004) and an Honourable Mention in Calgary’s (RWA) The Writer’s Voice Contest (2006).
LETHAL JOURNEY was a finalist in From the Heart Romance Writers (FTHRW) Golden Gate Contest (2003).
Kim’s action-packed thrillers have been highly praised by reviewers and readers worldwide. As one reviewer said, Buckle up, Hang on tight!
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Real Life Evil – A True Crime Quickie (Book One)
Real Life Evil – A True Crime Quickie (Book One)
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eBook ISBN: 978-0-9920841-2-7
First eBook Edition *January 2014
Dedication
For Justin, Carla, Porter and Peyton
In memory of Mary Beech
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
—From a headstone in Ireland
REAL LIFE EVIL
A True Crime Quickie (Book One)
by
Kim Cresswell
Chapter One
Jack Unterweger - Hiding in Plain Sight
Johann Jack
Unterweger
Johann Jack
Unterweger, the Vienna Woods Killer
was a chameleon—one of the most clever, manipulative predators of the twentieth century and the most dangerous. Celebrity, journalist, poet, award-winning novelist, his killing spree terrorized Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Los Angeles in the early 1990’s.
Cheered on by an endless parade of female supporters and celebrated in magazines and Austrian national radio, his 1994 trial for the murder of eleven women (three in Los Angeles and eight in Europe) was regarded as the Austrian Trial of the Century
, yet seemed to avoid major media limelight in the United States foreshadowed by the Rodney King case and the O.J. Simpson trial.
After being convicted and sentenced to life in prison for nine of the eleven murders, Jack Unterweger hanged himself on June 29, 1994 in Graz, Austria.
The Making of a Serial-killer
Johann Unterweger was born August 16, 1950 in Judenburg, Styria, Austria to a Viennese waitress and prostitute, Theresia Unterweger, and an American soldier whom she later married.
"Of my paternity I knew only a name…The G.I. came from Trieste, his home was in New Jersey…"
— From Purgatory (Fegefeur) by Jack Unterweger
At the age of two, after his mother was convicted and jailed for fraud, the children’s welfare office placed young Jack with his grandfather. Abandon by his mother at an impressionable young age, Unterweger claimed he lived in poverty with his abusive, alcoholic grandfather who had his own taste for ‘ladies of pleasure’.
It’s not surprising the five-foot-six, boyish looking Unterweger turned to crime at an early age after spending most of his life surrounded by prostitutes and pimps.
By the age of five Jack was drinking Schnapps. At nine-years-old he was chronically truant at school. During his years of acting out
he stole cars, committed robbery and fraud then graduated to abducting a sixteen-year-old girl and tried to force her into prostitution—a chilling sign of what was yet to come.
Over the years, he was convicted over a dozen times, mainly for sexual attacks on girls in various towns and spent less than a year behind bars. The most disturbing complaint filed with the police was that of a Salzburg girl who claimed Unterweger, after offering her a ride home took her to a meadow, pushed her into the back of his car and sexually assaulted her with a steel rod while he masturbated.
Shortly after the attack Unterweger was arrested and went to jail where he tried to commit suicide