Lemuel Smith and the Compulsion to Kill

Lemuel Smith and the Compulsion To Kill: The Forensic Story of a Multiple Personality Serial Killer

Lemuel Smith and the Compulsion to Kill was written by and Denis Foley. The 256 page book was published by in 2003 with an ISBN 10 of 0972238301. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Lemuel Smith and the Compulsion to Kill mentions 1 serial killers including Lemuel Smith. The author Denis Foley has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

Rapist, thief, and killer Lemuel Smith brutally murdered five people from 1958 to 1977. Judge John Clyne imposed two consecutive life sentences and labeled him "the poster boy for capital punishment." In 1981, while serving those sentences in Green Haven Correctional Facility, he murdered prison guard Donna Payant.Forensic anthropologist Denis Foley's riveting narrative reads like a novel but is one of the most detailed and well documented accounts ever published on the workings of the mind of a violent, multiple personality serial killer.