WHEN FATHER AND SON CONSPIRE A Minnesota Farm Murder

Hardback. The author examines in depth the September 29, 1983, murders of two southwestern Minnesota bankers by 46yr old James Jenkins and his 18yr old son, Steven, on a farm mortgaged to the bankers and abandoned by Jenkins. The crime led to a nationwide search, the apparent suicide of James, the surrender of Steven, and a case for Steven's defence based on the bizarre relationship between father and son. Was their crime really the desperate act of desperate men caught in the farm crisis, as the media espoused? Or was it the eruption of both men's growing mental illness fed by mutual delusions of reality, rootlessness, divorce, loneliness, and obsessive behaviour? Illus. + Afterword and Essay On Sources. 226pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in Nr. F. dw.