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It wasn't a book, it was a true detective magazine that somehow found its way into the kids' comic pile. I read it when I was 9 or 10 (my parents would have been horrified), and the thought that people murdered people - in cold blood - scared me far, far more than any ghost, monster, or alien story. I seem to recall a family being slaughtered, with one little girl in bed with 2 or 3 of her sisters left alive as the others were butchered. I also read accounts of the Tate/Labianca murders around this time as well, with lots of photographic detail (Life magazine?) For many years, I was actively afraid of someone breaking into our home to murder our entire family.
To this day my favorite genre is murder/mystery stories, and I have an interest in true life forensics. But I know that people don't just go and kill people for fun. Much.
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