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John J. Lennon, a Contributing Editor at Esquire, is serving his twenty-second year of a twenty-eight-years-to-life sentence and is currently housed at Sullivan Correctional Facility, Fallsburg, New York. His first book, The Tragedy of True Crime, will be published next year. (March 2023)
Peddling Darkness
True crime stories, like Sarah Weinman’s Scoundrel, make for suspenseful reading. But do they exploit the criminal, and deepen a thirst for punishment?
Scoundrel: The True Story of the Murderer Who Charmed His Way to Fame and Freedom
by Sarah Weinman
March 9, 2023 issue
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