TRUE CRIME AUSTRALIA

 The cases that stunned Australia – and left us all with one question: why did they do it?Gerard Baden-Clay was described as charming and successful, with a picture-perfect life, until he murdered his wife, Allison. John Myles Sharpe killed his pregnant wife and their young daughter with a spear gun. Simon Gittany flung his fiancee off the balcony of his upmarket inner-city apartment, having proposed lovingly to her, in public, just two months before. These and other crimes, committed by people described as average, ordinary, normal.In Why Did They Do It?, respected journalist Cheryl Critchley teams with esteemed psychologist Dr Helen McGrath to dissect the cases and identify the personality disorders of each of the killers. Using psychological analysis, combined with scientific evidence, they identify the reasoning and motives of the men and women whose brutal crimes shocked the nation. Cheryl Critchley and psychologist Professor Helen McGrath analyse the minds and motivations behind crimes that shocked Australia.

xiii, 386 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, colour portraits, colour photographs ; 24 cm. #040823

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