Erased, Mark Powelson
Erased, Mark Powelson
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Erased
Missing Women, Murdered Wives

Author: Mark Powelson, Marilee Strong

Narrator: Deb Thomas

Unabridged: 12 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/20/2020


Synopsis

Presents brilliant new theory that explains today's many headline cases of women who are "erased", and disappear without a trace, with a husband who has no empathy or remorse and often gets away with murder. Includes over fifty prominent cases, including Scott Peterson, Hollywood villain E. Scott Ewing, the notorious Jeffrey MacDonald, and the original eraser killer who inspired Theodore Dreiser's famous novel An American Tragedy and subsequent famous film A Place in the Sun (that starred Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelly Winters), and dozens of other cases. Explains why homicide is one of the primary causes of death among pregnant women in America. Shows how eraser killers create elaborate and often fool proof plots to erase, or "disappear" their wives and children, as if they had never lived at all, with no bodies, no apparent evidence of murder, and no guilty husband charged with the crime. Offers new psychological diagnosis known as the "dark triad" of narcissism, lack of human empathy, and Machiavellianism helps explain the extraordinary callousness of eraser murders apparently "normal" men with the ability to kill someone they once professed to love without a hint of remorse and the often ghoulish lengths they go to dispose of their victim's bodies. Analyzes new information and a new theory regarding why Scott Peterson killed his wife and unborn child.

Reviews

For anyone who read Ablow's book about Scott Peterson and thought, "No, that's not quite right...," Marilee Strong has the answer. I was telling a friend about the book, and she said, "It's like a perfect storm of psychiatric conditions." That about sums it up. Marilee Strong talks about many cases o......more

Goodreads review by Julie

Very good read and very disturbing. A couple of cases came to mind that developed after this book was published are Josh Powell & Drew Peterson. I don't think much has changed in law enforcement and the way we view "circumsantial evidence". Interestingly enough with the Casey Anthony trial (who happ......more

Goodreads review by Sandy

Oh, where to start. Looking at all the glowing reviews of this book, I feel like I must have been reading an entirely different book. The only negative reviews seem to say that they couldn't make it through the book. That is part of the reason I have chosen to thoroughly review the book and describe......more

This book is about what Strong (and her co-author Mark Powelson) calls "eraser killers," taking Scott Peterson as her type case: men who not merely murder their wives and girlfriends, but who go to elaborate lengths either to make the body disappear (erase the woman) or to make the murder look like......more