Sleep My Little Dead, Kieran Crowley
Sleep My Little Dead, Kieran Crowley
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Sleep My Little Dead
The True Story of the Zodiac Killer

Author: Kieran Crowley

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/16/2018


Synopsis

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.

About Kieran Crowley

Kieran Crowley is the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon's Wife, Burned Alive, and Sleep My Little Dead, an award-winning reporter for the New York Post. His investigative reporting on a series of dismemberment murders of prostitutes helped lead homicide detectives to serial killer Robert Shulman, who told police after his arrest that he halted his killing spree when he read a description of himself and his car in one of Crowley's stories. Crowley has covered hundreds of trials and thousands of murders, including the assassination of John Lennon, as well as the cases of Amy Fisher, Katie Beers, the Long Island Railroad Massacre, and serial killer Joel Rifkin.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ronnie on July 27, 2018

The story of the NYC Zodiac copycat killer, covered by the author as a reporter for the New York Post. The book was published before the case went to trial. Crowley also wrote THE SURGEON'S WIFE, which was good, and ALMOST PARADISE, which was even better. He died in 2016 at age 66.......more

Goodreads review by Stefanie on November 23, 2024

Heriberto Seda was born in New York in 1967. Seda was mentally and physically abusive to his sister, and was in trouble at school for bringing weapons. Seda began actively terrorizing people in 1990. He killed three and wounded six more before his capture. He copied The Zodiac Killer by sending taun......more

Goodreads review by Danita on November 17, 2023

It keeps the perspective of what the mind of Seda was and how he got arrested and ultimately convicted. It’s a great read for sure......more

Goodreads review by Frankie on August 09, 2024

Interesting recollections about the rather forgotten "other Zodiac killer", the 1990s' wannabe from New York. Good footnote to those interested in the "real" Zodiac's case, too!......more

Goodreads review by Annie on August 06, 2012

Well written! Crowley covered the Zodiac copycat for the NY Post so he was very knowledgeable to begin with. To this, he has interviewed many key people in the case. Although, since the book was published in 1997, it contains no information on the trial or guilty plea. Crowley goes into the mindset......more