Scoundrel : how a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him, the conservative establishment, and the courts to set him free

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  • Author: Weinman, Sarah
    Contributor:

    Zackman, Gabra

    Summary:

    In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith's life to be spared, but also for his sentence to be overturned.

    Genre: True crime stories
    Original Publisher: [New York] , HarperCollins
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9798200853670

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    9798200853687

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Zackman, Gabra

Abstract

In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith's life to be spared, but also for his sentence to be overturned.

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True crime stories
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[New York]

HarperCollins

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