Bad Karma by Deborah Blum

Bad Karma by Deborah Blum

Berkeley, 1968. Into this manic cauldron of political unrest and sexual rebellion came Prosenjit Poddar - a shy, brilliant engineering student from a dirt-poor village near Bangladesh...and Tanya Tarasoff - a pretty, flirtatious American teenager, reveling in her newfound freedoms.

They were caught in a clash of cultures - in a fatal misunderstanding. What she offered as friendship, he took for love. What she gave as casual affection, he read as the sweet initiation of a passion to match his own. 

His love few into obsession...rage...madness...and inevitable, irrevocable violence. When the police found him near her mutilated body, he held out his hands and said simply: "Handcuff me...I killed her."

A True Story of Obsession and Murder: Bad Karma by Deborah Blum