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Family & Relationships.
Sociology.
True Crime.
Nonfiction.
HTML:Edgar Award Finalist: The shocking account of a Wyoming father who terrorized his family for years??until his children plotted a deadly solution. One cold November night, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, fifteen-year-old Richard Jahnke Jr., ROTC leader and former Boy Scout, waited for his parents to return from celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the night they met. When his father got out of the car, the boy blasted him through the heart with a twelve-gauge pump-action shotgun. Richard's seventeen-year-old sister, Deborah, was sitting on the living room couch with a high-powered rifle??just in case her brother missed.
Hours later the Jahnke kids were behind bars. Days later they made headlines. So did the truth about the house of horrors on Cowpoke Road.
Was it cold-blooded murder? Or self-defense?
Richard Jahnke Sr., special agent for the IRS, gun collector, and avid reader of Soldier of Fortune, had been subjecting his wife, Maria, and both children to harrowing abuse??physical, psychological, and sexual??for years. Deborah and her brother conspired to finally put a stop to it themselves. But their fate was in the hands of a prejudiced and inept judicial system, and only public outcry could save them.
Written with the full and revealing cooperation of the Jahnkes, this finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime is "the ultimate family nightmare, played out in the heartland of America. . . . From the night of the murder through both trials, convictions and both youngsters' eventual release . . . it's gripping reading" (Chicago Tribune<… (más)
This was interesting to read 37 years after the events in this book happened. Especially in light of how society and the criminal justice system now defines and deals with child abuse in all its forms.
In 1982 when this all took place, child abuse was considered rare and only involved broken bones in young children. Father-daughter incest was considered impossible (the rate was considered 1 in 1,000,000 (million), if that). Corporal punishment was the norm and disciplining children without the use of force or violence was considered permissive or hippy. Wives could be beaten by their husbands and were expected to put up with, even to consider it their fault for being abused. The criminal justice was more black and white. Children accused of crimes had few rights. The concept and reality of psychological abuse wasn't even on the radar.
Richard and Deborah Jahnke were very much the victims of an abuser. And yes, Richard killed his father but his father would have likely killed a family member at some point. Killing is wrong but vicious, continuous psychological, verbal, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse over years is pure torture. Richard was still wrong for killing his father but the environment he was in left him little choice.
Thankfully today we recognize child abuse as a serious crime. Yet there are children in the same/similar situations Richard and Deborah were in and believe they can do nothing about them. Or they've asked for help and haven't received it or been told that their lying. We've improved but we as society as a whole can do better when it comes to child abuse. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, mu wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I waterd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright. And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine.
And into my garden stole, When the night had veild the pole; In the morning glad I see, My foe outstretchd beneath the tree. --William Blake Songs of Experience
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To my parents Edmund and Yvonne who knew another way.
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The city of Cheyenne stands on the high, windswept plains of southeastern Wyoming, at the junction of two interstate highways.
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Richard Jahnke returned to his mother's house in Cheyenne.
Family & Relationships.
Sociology.
True Crime.
Nonfiction.
HTML:Edgar Award Finalist: The shocking account of a Wyoming father who terrorized his family for years??until his children plotted a deadly solution. One cold November night, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, fifteen-year-old Richard Jahnke Jr., ROTC leader and former Boy Scout, waited for his parents to return from celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the night they met. When his father got out of the car, the boy blasted him through the heart with a twelve-gauge pump-action shotgun. Richard's seventeen-year-old sister, Deborah, was sitting on the living room couch with a high-powered rifle??just in case her brother missed.
Hours later the Jahnke kids were behind bars. Days later they made headlines. So did the truth about the house of horrors on Cowpoke Road.
Was it cold-blooded murder? Or self-defense?
Richard Jahnke Sr., special agent for the IRS, gun collector, and avid reader of Soldier of Fortune, had been subjecting his wife, Maria, and both children to harrowing abuse??physical, psychological, and sexual??for years. Deborah and her brother conspired to finally put a stop to it themselves. But their fate was in the hands of a prejudiced and inept judicial system, and only public outcry could save them.
Written with the full and revealing cooperation of the Jahnkes, this finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime is "the ultimate family nightmare, played out in the heartland of America. . . . From the night of the murder through both trials, convictions and both youngsters' eventual release . . . it's gripping reading" (Chicago Tribune
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In 1982 when this all took place, child abuse was considered rare and only involved broken bones in young children. Father-daughter incest was considered impossible (the rate was considered 1 in 1,000,000 (million), if that). Corporal punishment was the norm and disciplining children without the use of force or violence was considered permissive or hippy. Wives could be beaten by their husbands and were expected to put up with, even to consider it their fault for being abused. The criminal justice was more black and white. Children accused of crimes had few rights. The concept and reality of psychological abuse wasn't even on the radar.
Richard and Deborah Jahnke were very much the victims of an abuser. And yes, Richard killed his father but his father would have likely killed a family member at some point. Killing is wrong but vicious, continuous psychological, verbal, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse over years is pure torture. Richard was still wrong for killing his father but the environment he was in left him little choice.
Thankfully today we recognize child abuse as a serious crime. Yet there are children in the same/similar situations Richard and Deborah were in and believe they can do nothing about them. Or they've asked for help and haven't received it or been told that their lying. We've improved but we as society as a whole can do better when it comes to child abuse. (