The Dark Fountain

The Dark Fountain

The Dark Fountain was written by and Jay Robert Nash. The 310 page book was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 1982 with an ISBN 10 of 1590775201. 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. The Dark Fountain mentions 1 serial killers including Earle Leonard Nelson. The author Jay Robert Nash has 8 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

Bible-toting Earle Leonard Nelson fancied himself a man of mission. The Lamb of God, in fact, divinely empowered to cleanse the world of sin. But the priesthood that carried him across the country from San Francisco to Buffalo and ultimately into Canada during the 1920s assumed grisly proportions—the brutal strangling and violation of twenty-two helpless and unsuspecting women. Landladies mostly, but each, in Nelson's deranged mind, an incarnation of the Bibilical harlots he both loathed and coveted. Earle Leonard Nelson actually lived. And killed. In The Dark Fountain, famed crime historian Jay Robert Nash tells how and why with chilling realism. Beginning with Nelson's sadistic marriage to a frightened San Francisco schoolteacher, Nash's...