A Death in White Bear Lake by Barry Siegel [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINT / 1991]

A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All American Town by Barry Siegel FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1991] BANTAM BOOKS Rare early mass market paperback printing.  Excellent retro reading copy with some read-wear to spine and edge wear to front-cover.  Binding is tight and pages read beautifully.  "We want to talk to you about my brother who was murdered twenty-one years ago--can we come in?" The veneer of tranquility in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, began to crack the day Jerry Sherwood and her son showed up at the police station to inquire about her first-born son, Dennis--adopted by Lois and Harold Jurgens and dead before his fourth birthday. The autopsy report ruled peritonitis was the cause, but the startling photos of the boy suggested murder.How could the Jurgens kill a small child and get away with it? Determined to find answers, detectives Ron Meehan and Greg Kindle tracked down old witnesses and rebuilt the case brick by brick until they exposed the demons that dr