{ "item_title" : "Never Let Out Again", "item_author" : [" Seamus Flood "], "item_description" : "In December 2003, technicians drilling into a basement floor in Hammond, Indiana, watched flies rise from the holes. Beneath the fresh concrete lay three young people who had vanished that year. The man who lived above them had killed boys before, in West Germany in 1974 and in a flooded Illinois quarry in 1981. The detectives who extradited him had called him a Gacy type. A court psychiatrist had warned that he ran a high risk of homicide. And twice he had begged the authorities never to release him.They released him anyway.Seamus Flood traces the life of David Edward Maust from the Chicago mental ward where his mother left him at nine, through foster homes, a court-martial, Texas prisons and Cook County courtrooms, to the house on Ash Avenue where the warnings finally came true. Drawing on the documented record of court rulings, psychiatric warnings and Maust's own words, he shows how sentencing formulas, legal labels and state borders turned clear knowledge into catastrophe.This is a gripping work of true crime and a searching account of institutional failure. Above all, it puts five murdered boys and young men back at the centre of a story that is too often told about the man who killed them.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/823/752/9798237521474_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "22.99", "online_price" : "22.99", "our_price" : "22.99", "club_price" : "22.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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