Lethal Shadow by Stephen G. Michaud

Lethal Shadow by Stephen G. Michaud

When U.S. Secret Service agents arrested Mike DeBardeleben, they thought they had captured the most cunning counterfeiter ever to elude them for years. Then they saw the collection of nude photos, pornography, and memorabilia of sex slayings in his home "office" - and they began to realize the had inadvertently come upon one of the most horrifying tales of depravity and death they had ever encountered.

Now for the first time the full story of this sadistic murderer is told. It is the story of the trail of sexual savagery that made the most hardened lawmen shudder. it is the story of the trials in which a serial killer on a par with Ted Bundy conducted his own diabolically brilliant defense. It is the story of what made Mike DeBardeleben the human crime wave he was...of his rivetingly revealing secret diary...of the wives and children who were perhaps his most tragic victims...and of the punishment ultimately meted out to him. There has never been a criminal to equal Mike DeBardeleben - and never a true-crime book like this one.