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Dying for Daddy: A True Story of Accused Family Killer Jack Barron (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

by Carlton Smith

Dying for Daddy: A True Story of Accused Family Killer Jack Barron (St. Martin's True Crime Library) Cover

ISBN13: 9780312966324
ISBN10: 0312966326
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One By One They Begin To Die

On a picturesque street in Sacramento County, California, three healthy saplings stand side by side. But what they symbolize are the deaths of three innocent people-two of them children. And the man who allegedly took their lives, then eerily planted trees in their honor...was their own husband and father.

Shockingly, Mysteriously...

Hearts went out to Jack Barron when his wife Irene died mysteriously in her sleep. Soon after, when his two young children were also found dead in their beds, suspicions were aroused about Barron. Then, when his fifty-two-year-old mother died, also of asphyxiation in her sleep, the four deaths seemed too coincidental to ignore.

Were They All Dying For Daddy?

Was this "devoted" husband and father really a cold-blooded murderer who smothered his loved ones while they slept? Was he the victim of a bizarre syndrome, whereby a parent kills a child to gain sympathy and attention? With first-hand interviews and exclusive inside information, bestselling portrait of a man who may have been driven beyond his control to commit the most unspeakable of acts.

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Hearts went out to Jack Barron when his wife Irene died mysteriously in her sleep. Soon after, when his two young children were also found dead in their beds, suspicions were aroused about Barron. Then, when his 52-year-old mother died, also of asphyxiation in her sleep, the four deaths seemed too coincidental to ignore. Barron is the first man known to suffer from Munchausen-by-Proxy disease in which a person causes illness or death to a loved one in order to attain sympathy. Photos.

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charleefs2, January 11, 2008 (view all comments by charleefs2)
Jack Barron is a cold hearted monster. With today’s technology how in the world did this man get away so long with smothering his wife, little lone his children? It doesn’t make sense to me, but little does in our system today or then. I give credit to the author of doing a fine and interesting job on the story he told and wrote. It’s just not understandable how a person can be so cold hearted to put a pillow over the faces and kill the people and children that he is suppose to care for and protect. He’s a monster and thank God he will hopefully die in prison. My heart goes out to the Paget family and to Roberta Butler’s family and friends.
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ISBN:
9780312966324
Subtitle:
A True Story of Family Killer Jack Barron
Author:
Smith, Carlton
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Location:
New York, N.Y. :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Murder
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Case studies
Subject:
Murder -- California -- Sacramento -- Case studies.
Subject:
General True Crime
Subject:
Murder - General
Edition Number:
1
Edition Description:
First
Series:
St. Martin's True Crime Library
Publication Date:
August 1998
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
6.74x4.17x.79 in. .34 lbs.

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