title: When Caregivers Kill: Understanding Child Murder by Parents and Other Guardians
author: Betty L. Alt
description: It's an undeniably grisly topic, but authors Betty Alt and Sandra Wells handle it respectfully in their new book, "When Caregivers Kill: Understanding Child Murder by Parents and Other Guardians."...Filled with interesting information. (<i>The Sunday Chieftain and Star-Journal, May 23, 2010</i>)<br /><br />Alt and Wells make a solid contribution to the literature in this disturbing area, offering a fine balance between case details, theory, treatment, and the law. They competently capture the challenges and tensions involved in the issue of fatal caretakers, keeping compassion in perspective with genuine criminal behavior. Anyone who teaches on this subject or who deals with these offenders clinically or in court should have this book in their collection. It's a fine reference as well as a readable overview of what the most prominent experts and researchers have discovered. (Katherine Ramsland, PhD, professor of forensic psychology; author of The Mind of a Murderer and Confession of a Serial Killer)
zlib_text: **Annotation**
  
  The death of a child is tragic. The murder of a child is obscene. KILLING TIME
  is a dramatization of true events that occurred over a period of forty years
  in a picturesque town along the shores of the Great Lakes. It is a story of
  ritual abuse, suicide and murder. It is a story of local government and law
  enforcement officials who not only looked the other way but in many cases were
  active participants in the cover-up and in the crimes. Though many of the
  perpetrators have passed on, many have enjoyed the blessing of living well
  into old age. With the assistance of family and no-holds-barred legal
  representation they continue both to evade justice or to pay compensation to
  their many victims. KILLING TIME is a fictional account of the ultimate abuse
  of power and betrayal of trust.
  
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   **KILLING**
  
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   **By Eileen Browne**
  
    
  
   **©** 2016 by Eileen Browne
  
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