Book description
In a quiet working-class neighborhood in east-end Toronto, on an early
winter day in November 2003, Johnathon Madden returned home from school
only to be bullied and threatened by is older brother, Kevin; Kevin's
friend Tim Ferriman; and another teenager. the confrontation turned
violent and fatal. Johnathon didn't have the strength or size to protect
himself against the frenzied attack of his powerful 250-pound brother.
Sibling violence may be as old as time, but this case is particularly
disturbing and unsettling.
Kevin Madden had problems. This was not news to his family, teachers,
principal, social workers, and psychiatrists. but what drove him to
commit murder - and why Johnathon? Why were his friends compelled to
take part in the bloodletting? What events were going on behind the
scenes that played a part in the tragedy?
Jerry Langton, author of bestseller Fallen Angel, sets out to answer
those questions and look for the clues that drove Kevin Madden over
the edge. His investigation takes him onto the streets of Toronto,
where he unearths a disturbing teen subculture, into cyberspace, and
into the confidence of neighbors and students who knew the Madden
Family. Langton reveals shocking testimony from the trials - one of
which was declared a mistrial due to the perjury of a witness - and
exposes the twisted lives of youth living in a parallel universe where
death is met with complacency.
Jerry Langton
grew up in Hamilton, Ontario where he wrote for the Hamilton Spectator.
He also contributed to Maclean's. After a move to New York, he became a
deputy editor for
The Daily News
. Upon returning to Toronto, Langton's work appeared regularly in The
Globe & Mail and the Toronto Star. He is the author of the
bestseller
Fallen Angel: The Unlikely Rise of Walter Stadnick in the
Canadian Hells Angels
;
Iced: The Crystal Meth Epidemic
; and
Rat: How the World's Most Notorious Rodent Climbed Its Way to
the Top
.
