Sudden Fury by Leslie Walker

Sudden Fury by Leslie Walker

"I think my parents are dead."

When the police operator received this chilling call, she nearly dropped her cup of coffee. At first, police believed 17-year-old Larry Swartz's story that  and intruder - possibly his older brother - had horribly stabbed their father to death and then brutally killed their mother. But soon, the evidence pointed to Larry himself.

Abandoned by his natural mother at an early age, Larry had been heartlessly abused by an unfeeling foster-care system when a miracle occurred: Bob and Kay Swartz, an outwardly warm, churchgoing couple, adopted him. But soon, a darker side to the Swartz family life revealed itself. And then, on the night of January 16, 1984, something happened which ignited an unimaginable rage in the affection-starved child.

It would take investigators months to piece together what really caused one family to erupt in a moment of sudden fury...