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The New York Timesâbestselling authorâs âhaunting, compassionate, and terrifyingly trueâ story of a man breaking free from his notorious past (Gregg Olson, New York Timesâbestselling author of Starvation Heights). Â From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott committed at least twenty murders on a chicken ranch outside of Los Angeles. He held his nephew, Sanford Clark, captive there from the age of thirteen to fifteen. Sanford would be Northcottâs sole surviving victim. Forced by Northcott to take part in the murders, he carried tremendous guilt all his life. Yet despite his youth and the trauma he endured, Sanford helped gain justice for the dead and their families by testifying at the trial that led to Northcottâs execution. Â These shocking events inspired Clint Eastwoodâs film The Changeling. But in The Road Out of Hell, acclaimed crime writer Anthony Flacco uses revelatory new accounts from Sanfordâs son to tell the complete, true story. Going beyond the filmâs narrative, Flacco recounts not only Sanfordâs nightmarish captivity, but also the inspiring life he led afterward. Â In dramatizing one of the darkest cases in American crime, Flacco constructs a riveting psychological drama about how Sanford was able to detoxify himself from the evil heâd encountered, offering the ultimately redemptive story of one manâs remarkable ability to survive hell on earth and emerge intact. |
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