Book description
Inside the depraved mind of child killer, Derek Ernest Percy. Young.
White. High IQ. Middle-class family. Naval rating. A portrait of a
yuppie success story? No. A portrait of child killer, Derek Ernest
Percy. In this definitive, graphically chilling account of Percy's life,
a man dubbed by a prison officer as 'Australia's answer to Hannibal
Lecter', award-winning true-crime author Debi Marshall applies her
investigative journalism skills to a forensic examination of the crimes,
the man and his modus operandi. Informed by exclusive material never
before seen - poignant and insightful interviews with Percy's mother,
victims families, psychiatrists, police officers and former colleagues
- Marshall also takes us on her personal journey as she seeks to unravel
the truth about the monster whose lonely, idiosyncratic character has
deceived the best psychiatric minds for 40 years. Is Derek Percy
responsible for Australia's worst unsolved child abductions and murders?
Is he mad - or just bad? Debi Marshall is a journalist and author who
lives in Hobart. She has written a number of biographies and true crime
titles, including The House of Hancock: The Rise and Rise of Gina
Rinehart, Justice In Jeopardy: The unsolved murder of baby Deidre
Kennedy and Killing For Pleasure: the definitive story of the Snowtown
serial killings.
