Cries Unheard : Why Children Kill; the Story of Mary Bell
by Gitta SerenyEdition: Reprint
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2000-04-15
Publisher(s): Picador
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Summary
What brings one child to kill another? In 1968, at age eleven, Mary Bell was tried and convicted of murdering two small boys in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Throughout her coverage of the sensational trial, Gitta Sereny never believed the characterizations of Bell as the incarnation of evil, the bad seed personified. If we are ever to understand the pressures that lead children to commit serious crimes, she felt, only those children, as adults, can enlighten us.
Author Biography
Gitta Sereny has written four previous books, including Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth, which received the 1995 James Tait Black Biography Prize and the 1995 Duff Cooper Award. She lives in London.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | xi | ||||
| Preface | xiii | ||||
| Prologue | 3 | (28) | |||
| PART ONE The Trial: December 1968 | |||||
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31 | (10) | |||
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41 | (6) | |||
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47 | (19) | |||
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66 | (6) | |||
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72 | (12) | |||
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84 | (8) | |||
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92 | (29) | |||
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121 | (20) | |||
| PART TWO Red Bank: February 1969 To November 1973 | |||||
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141 | (20) | |||
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161 | (16) | |||
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177 | (16) | |||
| PART THREE Prison: November 1973 To May 1980 | |||||
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193 | (23) | |||
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216 | (19) | |||
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235 | (24) | |||
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259 | (19) | |||
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278 | (17) | |||
| PART FOUR After Prison: 1980 To 1984 | |||||
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295 | (28) | |||
| PART FIVE Return To Childhood: 1957 To 1968 | |||||
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323 | (9) | |||
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332 | (4) | |||
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336 | (15) | |||
| PART SIX Beginnings of a Future: 1984 To 1996 | |||||
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351 | (16) | |||
| Conclusion | 367 | (11) | |||
| Postscript | 378 | (3) | |||
| Appendix | 381 |
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