Mom, Dad, Mike, and Pattie

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MOM, DAD, MIKE, AND PATTIE
A patrolman making a routine call concerning an aban-
doned car approached the well-kept Columbo home
in a placid Chicago suburb. What he found inside
shocked and sickened the nation. Frank and Mary
Columbo and their thirteen-year-old son Michael had
been slaughtered in a frenzy of shooting, stabbing, and
beating—a crime so brutal that it could only have been
ignited by an explosion of hate and rage.
Sifting through evidence and theories, the investigative
team met with a chatty, helpful young woman who
called to volunteer her own theories on the murders,
who seemed to have no emotional connection to the
case. She was nineteen-year-old Pattie, sole surviving
member of the Columbo family. Disturbed by her dry-
eyed demeanor, detectives shifted their attention from
possible robbers to the Columbos' own daughter.
The arrest and trial of Pattie and her much-older lover
devastated her middle-class community. What could
cause such a violent... Tovább

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MOM, DAD, MIKE, AND PATTIE
A patrolman making a routine call concerning an aban-
doned car approached the well-kept Columbo home
in a placid Chicago suburb. What he found inside
shocked and sickened the nation. Frank and Mary
Columbo and their thirteen-year-old son Michael had
been slaughtered in a frenzy of shooting, stabbing, and
beating—a crime so brutal that it could only have been
ignited by an explosion of hate and rage.
Sifting through evidence and theories, the investigative
team met with a chatty, helpful young woman who
called to volunteer her own theories on the murders,
who seemed to have no emotional connection to the
case. She was nineteen-year-old Pattie, sole surviving
member of the Columbo family. Disturbed by her dry-
eyed demeanor, detectives shifted their attention from
possible robbers to the Columbos' own daughter.
The arrest and trial of Pattie and her much-older lover
devastated her middle-class community. What could
cause such a violent rampage in this normal, loving
family? And what would prevent it from happening
within any family? Bonnie Remsberg, a journalist who ,
covered the case as it broke, details the investigation ¦
and trial, and delves into the family dynamics and,dark
forces working within Pattie Columbo. Mom, Dad, Mike,
and Pattie is a disturbing journey into the hidden side of /
human relationships—and a study of the shattering of J
an American dream. Vissza