Victim : The Other Side of Murder

The New York Times –bestselling author’s pioneering true crime classic: It’s “Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood turned inside out” ( Newsweek ). During an armed robbery in 1974, five hostages were held in the basement of a small home-audio store in Ogden, Utah, by a group of enlisted US Air Force airmen stationed at a nearby base. The victims—including wife and mother Carol Naisbitt—were brutally tortured, shot in the head, and left for dead. Yet somehow, Carol’s sixteen-year-old son made it out alive—and “the emotional strain his family underwent during his year-long hospitalization, is the heart of Kinder’s story” ( Kirkus Reviews ). In Victim , the first true crime book to go beyond the headlines and tell story of love, loss, courage, and survival, “the crime in question becomes not merely something that happened to somebody else somewhere else, but rather an event that touches us all firsthand and very deeply.” A compelling and tragic look at how lives can be changed forever by a random act of violence, it remains one of the most influential books in the victims’ rights movement and has become required reading for trainees at the FBI Academy at Quantico ( Boston Herald ). **The__New York Times__-bestselling author's pioneering true crime classic: It's "Truman Capote's__In Cold Blood__turned inside out" (__Newsweek__).**During an armed robbery in 1974, five hostages were held in the basement of a small home-audio store in Ogden, Utah, by a group of enlisted US Air Force airmen stationed at a nearby base. The victims--including wife and mother Carol Naisbitt--were brutally tortured, shot in the head, and left for dead. Yet somehow, Carol's sixteen-year-old son made it out alive--and "the emotional strain his family underwent during his year-long hospitalization, is the heart of Kinder's story" ().In, the first true crime book to go beyond the headlines and tell story of love, loss, courage, and survival, "the crime in question becomes not merely something that happened to somebody else somewhere else, but rather an event that touches us all firsthand and very deeply." A compelling and tragic look at how lives can be changed forever by a random act of violence, it remains one of the most influential books in the victims' rights movement and has become required reading for trainees at the FBI Academy at Quantico (). Now a classic of true crime, Victim is a compelling and tragic look at how lives can be changed forever by a random act of violence. During an armed robbery, several hostages were brutally tortured, shot in the head, and left for dead. Victim focuses on the members of one family'including a mother who died after the attack and a son who was left barely alive'as they fought for his survival and struggled to rebuild their lives. Victim was the first book to go beyond the headlines and statistics about violent crime, to tell the victims' dramatic story of love, loss and courage. It remains one of the most influential books in the victims' rights movement and has become required reading in criminology courses across the country. It may be more relevant now than ever. "Victim is Truman Capote's In Cold Blood turned inside out."'Newsweek; "Just as Capote did, Kinder has somehow created a story that is truer than true."'The Atlanta Journal-Constitution St. Benedict's Hospital sat high on the east bench overlooking Ogden, Utah.