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Sleep My Little Dead: The True Story of the Zodiac Killer (St. Martin's true crime library)
 
 
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Sleep My Little Dead: The True Story of the Zodiac Killer (St. Martin's true crime library) [Mass Market Paperback]

Kieran Crowley (Author)
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)


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St. Martin's true crime library October 15, 1997
The twisted copycat who looked to the stars...
He slipped like a sinister shadow in the night, stalking, then savagely attacking. Most of his unsuspecting targets were shot at close range and one woman was stabbed over one hundred times. After dispatching his victims, police allege he left their bloodstained bodies and crept back to the neatly kept room in his mother's apartment.

Sleep my little dead...
The taunting, bizarre letters alleged killer Heriberto Seda sent to the police and the New York Post were full of strange symbols and mysterious references to the Zodiac. For six terror-filled years, the Zodiac killer ruled the night, claiming nine victims in his homicidal rage. One of the biggest manhunts in New York City's history was unleashed...and still the body count rose.

When would the terror end?
Police claim his lethal fury finally exploded one summer afternoon. After shooting his own sister, he held her boyfriend hostage and kept scores of heavily armed police pinned down in a ferocious firefight that finally ended with his surrender. But it was only when an alert detective recognized a symbol drawn on Seda's confession as similar to the personal signature used by the Zodiac Killer in his letters, that investigators concluded that the madman they had arrested was in fact the notorious Zodiac Killer.

Author Kieran Crowley, an award-winning New York Post reporter who covered the case from the first grisly shooting and cracked the psychopath's secret code, reveals the exclusive inside story and finally solves the biggest remaining mystery of the case.


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Twenty-two-year-old Eddie Seda lived with his mother and sister in an apartment in Brooklyn. He had no job, no wife, no girlfriend, no friends. He was desperate to become somebody important. The person he chose to "be" was the infamous Zodiac killer who haunted San Francisco during the late 1960s. Between 1990 and 1995 Seda shot nine people in a pattern according to their zodiac signs, sent cryptic messages to the New York Post in a style imitating the original Zodiac, and then finally, in 1996, staged a fierce firefight with the police after barricading himself in the apartment. Kieran Crowley, who covered this "New York Zodiac" as a reporter for the Post, has a lively, dramatic style that is well-suited to his fictionalized accounts of Seda's inner thoughts and private rituals. At times, though, Crowley's prose is overly excited, even sloppy--such as referring to a DNA fingerprint as a "map" of the "genetic code."

Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks (October 15, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312963394
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312963392
  • Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 3.9 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,010,127 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars What Can I Say?, February 5, 2006
This review is from: Sleep My Little Dead: The True Story of the Zodiac Killer (St. Martin's true crime library) (Mass Market Paperback)
I've read material safety data sheets more engaging than this. Stick with Graysmith or others if you want a good read.
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19 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Zero Stars for this book!, May 20, 2002
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This review is from: Sleep My Little Dead: The True Story of the Zodiac Killer (St. Martin's true crime library) (Mass Market Paperback)
Save your time, save your money, don't purchase this book.

Yes, in NYC this guy was called the Zodiac, but this author uses California's infamous Zodiac Killer symbol, etc. on the cover. So much for imagination.

The book itself is a total waste of time, the writing is poor, there are spelling and grammatical mistakes throughout. If I could have given this book a zero star rating I would have.

If you want good true Crime check out books by Graysmith, Keppel, Rule, Bledsoe and Carlton Smith, these names are KNOWN in the True Crime genre, Crowley is not.

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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Once you get started on this, u'll want more, June 20, 1999
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This review is from: Sleep My Little Dead: The True Story of the Zodiac Killer (St. Martin's true crime library) (Mass Market Paperback)
This was the very first True Crime book that I had purchased. It's cleverly written and readers can get into the mind of Eddie the self proclaimed 'Zodiac 2'. It is a great book to start on if you have not read any True Crime books. Eddie's mind is complex and spuns intellectual thoughts, Kieran Crowley explores his mind and puts himself in Eddie's shoes to come up with this fantastic book. (not forgetting that he had an interview with Eddie himself) This book is a MUST BUY!!!
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First Sentence:
EDDIE was seated at the small wooden desk in his room, a table lamp lighting its surface. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
blue bible, killer suspect, zip gun, central booking
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East New York, Central Park, Eddie Seda, Seven Sisters, New York Post, Joe Proce, Son of Sam, Jamaica Avenue, San Francisco, Highland Park, Larry Parham, Joey Herbert, Leo the Lion, Pitkin Avenue, Diane Ballard, Mario Orozco, Tommy Maher, Jim Weber, California Zodiac, Long Island, Operation Watchdog, Orion the Hunter, Seven-Five Precinct, Cypress Hills, East River
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