{"product_id":"9780615480121","title":"The Mail Order Serial Killer: The Life and Death of Harry Powers","description":"In the 1955 film The Night of the Hunter, greedy self-ordained minister, Reverend Harry Powell, portrayed by Robert Mitchum, kills women and terrorizes children. The hackneyed expression that truth is stranger than fiction, in this case, is not hyperbole. \u003cp\u003eOn a small farm in Quiet Dell, eight miles southeast of Clarksburg, West Virginia, two middle-aged women and three children were starved and murdered in the summer of 1931. The five bodies recovered were only intended to be a beginning. Others were scheduled for the abattoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Harry Powers, also known as Bluebeard, Mail Order Romeo\/Don Juan, Slaughterhouse Harry, Human Tarantula, and Love Racketeer, one of the most enigmatic and until now, unstudied, sociopaths of the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Post Mortem Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49949405380848,"sku":"9780615480121","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780615480121","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}