Murder in Little Egypt by Darcy O'Brien

Murder in Little Egypt by Darcy O'Brien

To his patients and friends in Little Egypt, Illinois, Dr. John Dale Cavaness was a beloved and admired medical practitioner - a selfless humanitarian who often treated patients without charge. Very few people outside of the family knew about the other side of the "good" doctor: a sadistic Jekyll-Hyde personality who beat his wife, terrorized his sons, and carried on a tumultuous private life of boozing, brawling, womanizing, and disastrous financial manipulations, culminating in his 1984 arrest for an unimaginable crime - the murder of his 22-year-old son Sean. Police investigators, and a brilliant, relentless prosecutor, also suspect Cavaness in the unsolved shooting death of his heavily insured firstborn seven years earlier. This utterly harrowing true crime story probes the bizarre psychological dynamics behind these ghastly crimes - and the man who committed them...taking us deep into a hidden Gothic part of America where violence and murder form a long and bloody tradition...