The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City

✍ Scribed by Tillman, Laura

• Book ID: 109299899
• Publisher: Scribner
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 3 MB
• Series: Laura 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781501104251

✦ Synopsis

In Cold Blood meets Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family : A harrowing, profoundly personal investigation of the causes, effects, and communal toll of a deeply troubling crime--the brutal murder of three young children by their parents in the border city of Brownsville, Texas.
On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas--one of America's poorest cities--John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children. The apartment building in which the brutal crimes took place was already rundown, and in their aftermath a consensus developed in the community that it should be destroyed. It was a place, neighbors felt, that was plagued by spiritual cancer.

In 2008, journalist Laura Tillman covered the story for The Brownsville Herald. The questions it raised haunted her, particularly one asked by the sole member of the city's Heritage Council to oppose demolition: is there any such thing as an evil building? Her...