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While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family

✍ Scribed by Harrison, Kathryn

Book ID
109040962
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
410 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781588367150

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✦ Synopsis

Early on an April morning, eighteen-year-old Billy Frank Gilley, Jr., killed his sleeping parents. Surprised in the act by his younger sister, Becky, he turned on her as well. Billy then climbed the stairs to the bedroom of his other sister, Jody, and said, "We're free." But is one ever free after an unredeemable act of violence? The Gilley family murders ended a lifetime of physical and mental abuse suffered by Billy and Jody at the hands of their parents. And it required each of the two survivors–one a convicted murderer, the other suddenly an orphan–to create a new identity, a new life.

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