
Survived by One
The Life and Mind of a Family Mass Murderer
Southern Illinois University Press
Published on 6. August 2013
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-0-8093-3262-5 (ISBN)
Description
On November 8, 1985, 18-year-old Tom Odle brutally murdered his parents and three siblings and was sentenced to death. However, after seventeen years on death row, Illinois governor George Ryan's moratorium on the death penalty, and later abolishment of capital punishment, changed Odle's sentence to natural life. The commutation of his sentence turned Odle's life upside down. Wanting to understand why he committed the murders, he reached out to Dr. Robert Hanlon, a forensic neuropsychologist who had examined him in the past. Hanlon tells a gripping story of Odle's life as an abused child and as a young man coming of age within the prison system, seamlessly weaving into the narrative Odle's honest, unadorned reflections of his childhood, finding family on death row, his role as counselor to fellow inmates, and his belief in the powers of redemption.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Carbondale
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
23 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8093-3262-5 (9780809332625)
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Persons
Dr. Robert Hanlon is a clinical neuropsychologist with a specialization in the psychological assessment of violent criminal offenders. An associate professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Clinical Neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, he has evaluated hundreds of murder defendants and death row inmates.
Thomas V. Odle is an inmate at the Dixon Correctional Center, Illinois Department of Corrections, serving a life sentence for murder.