title: Sudden Fury: A True Story of Adoption and Murder
author:  Leslie Walker 
description: In 1984, 17-year-old Larry Swartz killed his foster parents in an Annapolis, Md., suburb. One of the couple's three adopted children, he was shy and emotionally undemonstrative. His background and the circumstances leading to murder are the thrust of this searching study by Baltimore Evening Sun reporter Walker, less a true-crime re-creation than the story of a tortured being. Larry was given up by his birth mother when he was two and shunted from family to family, none of them willing to cope with his increasing insecurity and alienation. At age six, he was adopted by Bob and Kay Swartz, a model church-going Catholic couple but severe and demanding of their children, the father's temper sometimes growing into physical abuse. Larry pleaded guilty to killing them and is now in Maryland's rehabilitative program at Patuxent correctional facility. Photos not seen by PW. <br />Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any
  similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended
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  Text copyright © 2013 Suzanne Wright
  
  
  All rights reserved.  
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  Published by Montlake Romance  
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  ISBN-13: 9781611099362  
  ISBN-10: 1611099366  
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2012953340
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _In loving memory of baby Curtis_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CONTENTS
  
  
  [CHAPTER ONE](part0005.html#4OIQ0-096f90897dd54fdf8d153b70c7ef8a71)
  
  
  [CHAPTER TWO](part0006.html#5N3C0-096f90897dd54fdf8d153b70c7ef8a71)
  
  
  [CHAPTER THREE](part0007.html#6LJU0-096f90897dd54fdf8d153b70c7ef8a71)
  
  
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