Flesh Collectors: Their Ghoulish Appetites Drove Them to Crimes That Only

by Fred Rosen

Book Overview

Misfit Jeremiah Rodgers, 21, and racist devil worshipper Jonathan Lawrence, 23, were serving time for petty crimes when they met in a Florida penal system mental hospital. A friendship grew from their shared lust for sadistic brutality, and once released, they teamed up to hunt human prey. In March, 1998, in Pensacola, Florida, while quietly watching TV, Leighton Smitherman was shot in the back by assailants hiding outside his home. Amazingly, he...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786015837
• ISBN13: 9780786015832
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Pinnacle Books
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

More depravity from the master

If you want to know what's going on in the dark corners of America's nightmare, just check out the latest Fred Rosen true crime. Rosen, who wrote 'Lobster Boy' among others, is one of the best unsung true crime writers doing it today.

A Family member...

My name is Ryan. Leighton Smitherman, one of the victims in the book,is my uncle. Please read this book, I WILL BE CHECKING BACK TO THIS PAGE TO SEE WHAT YOU THINK.

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I couldn't believe the depravity of the two killers, Rodgers and Lawrence, or the way, Rosen held me spellbound as he cut back and forth between the killers and soon to be victims.In the end, I really was moved to tears by Rosen's descriptive compassion for the victims, and the way Rodgers and Lawrence seemed fated for death.