The Beast: A Chilling True Story of a Psychopathic Child Killer (True Crime)

Clifford Olson had an extensive criminal history. Ryan Green typically tells a true crime story from the youth of the criminal and in this case that means criminal acts from the onset. This convicted Canadian serial killer confessed to murdering 11 children and teenagers between the ages of 9 and 18 in the early 1980s. He was arrested in 1981, on suspicion of attempting to abduct two girls by a couple of proactive RCMP officers. He reached a controversial deal with authorities, agreeing to confess to the 11 murders and show the RCMP the location of the bodies of those not yet recovered. In return, authorities agreed that C$10,000 for each victim was paid into a trust for his wife, Joan, and then-infant son, Clifford III. His wife show more received C$100,000 after Olson cooperated with the RCMP, the 11th body being a "freebie". This incredible and unorthodox arrangement (has it any equal?) not only allowed those bodies to be recovered but from Olson's statements an incredible amount of detail comes down into this book on the abductions, druggings, rape, murder and corpse-play of The Beast. show less