PROPHET OF DEATH The Mormon Blood-Atonement Killings.

Hardback, 1st US edition. The story of cult murderer Jeffrey Don Lundgren - a husband, a father, a preacher, and a killer - mesmerised the American Middle West for more than a year. It is a tale of unspeakable evil, of hidden lusts, sexual slavery, of friend turned against friend, husband against wife against child, of demonic, homicidal urges played out within the white clapboard walls of a rural church. Featuring the appalling murder of the Avery family, husband and wife and 3 young children, shot at point-blank range and hastily buried under the dirt floor of an abandoned barn. Why did Jeffrey Don Lundgren orchestrate the murder of his best friends and their children? How had Lundgren compelled such homicidal loyalty from his congregants? What evidence provoked the FBI to raid Lundgren's home on the day after the murder...though they did not actually detect the crime until at least 6months later? Based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interview material and trial transcripts, the author reaches behind the well-reported headlines in this case, to reveal the shocking innermost secrets of Jeffrey Don Lundgren, his immediate family and followers, and the almost equally strange world of the schismatic Mormon sect from which he sprang. Illus. 448pp. 8vo. h/back. Neat name insc. on fep, o/w Nr. F. in Nr. F. dw.