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From the day he was born, Patrick McCullough faced hardships and reacted with untempered anger. His mother, a soon-to-be-divorced military wife, was late to realize that he was deaf and never learned how to handle his outbursts. Eventually, she abandoned him by petitioning for him to be a ward of the state. Stints in mental institutions and dismissals from several schools punctuated the rest of McCullough=s early years. Despite this severe childhood, no one could have predicted the outcome of his life described in Deadly Charm: The Story of a Deaf Serial Killer. Authors McCay and Marie Vernon present a compelling story about McCullough, a strikingly handsome man with a winning personality. His charm was endearing, but his incendiary temper resulted in increasing aggression and abuse. Eventually, he was convicted for the murder of two men. Yet, McCullough ingratiated himself with the court and served only seven years in prison. Once free again, he resumed his pattern of sweetness and mayhem. He beguiled sympathetic women whom he then abused and stalked. Finally, his rage culminated in a crescendo of destruction. Deadly Charm depicts a deaf serial killer driven by frustration and violence and leaves much to consider. Did McCullough=s deafness exacerbate his lethally violent nature? Perhaps his vicious impulses could have been constrained if his time in mental institutions had been more productive than his time in prison.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Foreword
  2. pp. ix-xi
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  1. 1. October 1982: Clint Come Home
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  1. 2. July 1979: On the Waterfront
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  1. 3. July 1979 to February 1980: Man About Town
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  1. 4. February 8, 1980: The Morning After
  2. pp. 18-27
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  1. 5. March 1980: Under Suspicion, and a Night of Rampage
  2. pp. 28-33
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  1. 6. 1980: Dead or Alive?
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  1. 7. 1980: Sparks of Suspicion
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  1. 8. January 1960: An Ominous Beginning
  2. pp. 47-50
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  1. 9. 1961–1962: Patrick’s First Years
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  1. 10. 1961–1965: A Destructive Child
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  1. 11. 1965: A Traumatic Separation
  2. pp. 64-72
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  1. 12. 1967–1975: Growing Up in Trouble
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  1. 13. 1975: Memorial Day Disaster
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  1. 14. 1975–1978: Chance for a New Beginning
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  1. 15. January 1978: A Second Chance
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  1. 16. 1978–1980: Troubled Waters
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  1. 17. February 1982: Parking Garage Attendant Murdered
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  1. 18. 1982: On the Trail of a Bloody Weapon
  2. pp. 122-129
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  1. 19. 1982: Follow-up on the Myer Investigation
  2. pp. 130-144
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  1. 20. September 1982: The Beginning of a Romance
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  1. 21. October 1982: The Corpus Delicti
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  1. 22. 1983: The End of a Romance
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  1. 23. February 1985: The Riley Murder Trial
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  1. 24. 1985: More Interrogation
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  1. 25. The Myer Case: Trial and Sentencing
  2. pp. 176-182
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  1. 26. 1986–1993: Seven Years behind Bars
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  1. 27. 1995–2000: The Attorney and the Carpenter
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  1. 28. Years of Incarceration
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  1. 29. 2001: Freedom and a New Romance
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  1. 30. Dear Patrick . . .
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  1. 31. The Aftermath of Tragedy
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  1. 32. In Memoriam
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  1. References
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